{"product_id":"library-of-america-john-dos-passos-editionisbn-9781883011147","title":"Library of America John Dos Passos Edition","description":"Unique among American books for its epic scope and panoramic social sweep, \u003ci\u003eU.S.A.\u003c\/i\u003e has long been acknowledged as a monument of modern fiction. Now The Library of America presents an exclusive one-volume edition of this enduring masterwork by John Dos Passos, including for the first time detailed notes and a chronicle of the world events that serve as a backdrop.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the novels that make up the trilogy—\u003ci\u003eThe 42nd Parallel\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e1919\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Big Money\u003c\/i\u003e—Dos Passos creates an unforgettable collective portrait of America, shot through with sardonic comedy and brilliant social observation. He interweaves the careers of his characters and the events of their time with a narrative verve and breathtaking technical skill that make \u003ci\u003eU.S.A.\u003c\/i\u003e among the most compulsively readable of modern classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA startling range of experimental devices captures the textures and background noises of twentieth-century life: “Newsreels” with blaring headlines; autobiographical “Camera Eye” sections with poetic stream-of-consciousness; “biographies” evoking emblematic historical figures like J.P. Morgan, Henry Ford, John Reed, Frank Lloyd Wright, Thorstein Veblen, and the Unknown Soldier. Holding everything together is sheer storytelling power, tracing dozens of characters from the Spanish-American War to the onset of the Depression.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eU.S.A.\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy is filled with American speech: labor radicals and advertising executives, sailors and stenographers, interior decorators and movie stars. Their crisscrossing destinies take in wars and revolutions, desperate love affairs and harrowing family crises, corrupt public triumphs and private catastrophes, in settings that include the trenches of World War I, insurgent Mexico, Hollywood studios in the silent era, Wall Street boardrooms, and the tumultuous streets of Boston just before the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe volume contains newly researched chronologies of Dos Passos’s life and of world events cited in \u003ci\u003eU.S.A.\u003c\/i\u003e, notes, and an essay on textual selection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLIBRARY OF AMERICA\u003c\/b\u003e is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.“The \u003ci\u003eU.S.A.\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy hasn’t been available in a single volume for decades. All hail, then, the estimable Library of America, which has brought out such an edition. . . . Replete with notes and chronologies of both Dos Passos’s life and of world events contemporaneous with the action of the novels, its edition of \u003ci\u003eU.S.A.\u003c\/i\u003e is one to savor.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Plain Dealer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Dos Passos \u003c\/b\u003e(1896–1970) was born in Chicago and graduated from Harvard in 1916. His service as an ambulance driver in Europe at the end of World War I led him to write \u003ci\u003eThree Soldiers\u003c\/i\u003e in 1919, the first in a series of works that established him as one of the most prolific, inventive, and influential American writers of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume was edited by \u003cb\u003eTownsend Ludington\u003c\/b\u003e, Cary C. Boshamer Professor of English and American Studies at the University of North Carolina and author of \u003ci\u003eJohn Dos Passos: A Twentieth Century Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eDaniel Aaron \u003c\/b\u003e(1912-2016)\u003cb\u003e,\u003c\/b\u003e Victor S. Thomas Professor of English and American Literature at Harvard University and a founder of The Library of America.","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304333136101,"sku":"NP9781883011147","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781883011147.jpg?v=1730756995","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/library-of-america-john-dos-passos-editionisbn-9781883011147","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}