Narrated by Joe Barrett

Considered by many to be John Dos Passos's greatest work, Manhattan Transfer is an expressionistic picture of New York in the 1920s that reveals the lives of wealthy power brokers and struggling immigrants alike. From Fourteenth Street to the Bowery, Delmonico's to the underbelly of the city waterfront, Dos Passos chronicles the lives of characters struggling to become a part of modernity before they are destroyed by it. More than ninety years after its first publication, Manhattan Transfer still stands as a novel of the very first importance. It is a masterpiece of modern fiction and a lasting tribute to the dual-edged nature of the American dream

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