Wrapped Up In Books

My musings on what I've read since January 2006.

Sunday, August 06, 2006

1919 - John Dos Passos

Here's what I had to say about The 42nd Parallel, the first book in the U.S.A. trilogy when I did my Top 100 Novels project:

Now, this is what I'm doing the top 100 thing for. A book I've never heard of, but it blew me away as a kind of American version of Ulysses. A hugely ambitious panorama of early twentieth century America. I've only read volume one of the trilogy, but I'll read the rest soon.

1919 is part 2, and I'm still keen but maybe not so blown away as I was by part one - unsurprisingly, I suppose. I'll get round to part 3 at some stage.

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