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Title	:	The 42nd Parallel (The U.S.A. Trilogy #1)
Author	:	John Dos Passos
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 326 pages
Published	:	May 25th 2000 by Mariner Books (first published 1930)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literature. Novels. American

The 42nd Parallel (The U.S.A. Trilogy #1)

John Dos Passos

Paperback | Pages: 326 pages

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With his U.S.A. trilogy, comprising THE 42nd PARALLEL, 1919, and THE BIG MONEY, John Dos Passos is said by many to have written the great American novel. While Fitzgerald and Hemingway were cultivating what Edmund Wilson once called their "own little corners," John Dos Passos was taking on the world. Counted as one of the best novels of the twentieth century by the Modern Library and by some of the finest writers working today, U.S.A. is a grand, kaleidoscopic portrait of a nation, buzzing with history and life on every page.

The trilogy opens with THE 42nd PARALLEL, where we find a young country at the dawn of the twentieth century. Slowly, in stories artfully spliced together, the lives and fortunes of five characters unfold. Mac, Janey, Eleanor, Ward, and Charley are caught on the storm track of this parallel and blown New Yorkward. As their lives cross and double back again, the likes of Eugene Debs, Thomas Edison, and Andrew Carnegie make cameo appearances.

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Original Title:	The 42nd Parallel
ISBN:	0618056815 (ISBN13: 9780618056811)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The U.S.A. Trilogy #1
Characters:	Mac Smith, Janey Williams, Eleanor, Ward, Charley
Setting:	United States of America

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As Hemingway said to Dos Passos in a letter, after reading his USA trilogy:"Dont let yourself slip and get any perfect characters inno Stephen Daedelusesremember it was Bloom and Mrs. Bloom saved Joyce . . . If you get a noble communist remember the bastard probably masturbates and is jallous as a cat. Keep them people, people, people, and dont let them get to be symbols."(1932)

A better title for this chore would be NOW! Thats What I Call America. I'll get to that later.The 42nd Parallel is unique and groundbreaking in that, for its time, it found new and interesting ways to bore its reader to tears. First, it relentlessly bludgeons its reader with its annoyingly liberal usage of free indirect speech. Rather than giving its characters voice and motion, The 42nd Parallel prides itself on summary, exposition, and trading off engagement for its crappy style. Second, it

Did I just give this book 1 1/2 ? It looked like it and if so , that's what I want . with the exception of Hemingway and some Fitzgerald , I'm not found of writers of this period ( WW I and the Roaring 20s .The characters were neither memorable or likable , which is a poor way to begin a trilogy . So given that I am no longer tied to a required reading list , I'll accept #1 as emblematic of the whole .

Xperimental Mash-upThis experimental novel set in the early 1900s before the Market Crash is a mash-up of random radio broadcasts of news headlines and lyrics, biographical blurbs on significant figures, and the aimless autobiographical gibberings of a literary sadist. It reminded me how my admiration for an artist with the courage to spend years on daring innovations has no true relation to my appreciation (or not) for the end product. I keep going back to the same question, which arises from

Stop searching, THIS is the great American novel... but "novel" doesn't really do it justice. It's a panoramic portrait of America in the first decades of the 20th century. Dos Passos' characters chase, in myriad ways, their American Dreams, as the nation rapidly matures in its new identity as an urban, commercial, world power. There is no plot here- the book, like so much other art of the time, is, in form as well as substance, something entirely new- a novel novel. The characters surge forward

This is far from being The Great American Novel. Very far. Dos Passos' 'stream of consciousness' style gets old very quickly. He provides a snapshot into American life without developing a story or any of his characters. I was disappointed but plodded through to the end. With so much other material to read, it is doubtful I will ever waste my time on the other two books in the trilogy.

http://kristinsbookblog.blogspot.com/...First, as an introduction to Dos Passos, who if you are anything like I was until recently (and only because of my book list obsession) you have never heard of, some quotes:[Hes:] the greatest living writer of our time. -Jean Paul Sartre, 1938Dos Passos came nearer than any of us to writing the Great American Novel, and its entirely possible he succeeded. I can only say, from my own point of view, that no novel I read while in college stimulated me more,