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Manhattan Transfer
Paperback, 342 pages, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, List Price: $15 | purchase
NPR Summary
Manhattan Transfer follows the lives of 1920s Manhattanites all over the economic spectrum.
Genres:
This book is about:
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.),
- Rich people,
- Social problems,
- Immigrants,
- New York (N.Y.),
- Psychological fiction,
- Fiction
NPR stories about Manhattan Transfer
Three Books...
Black Market Value: Three Criminally Good Reads
Manhattan Transfer was a landmark book during its day; Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, and D.H. Lawrence all sung its praises, and even Jennifer Egan mirrors its hectic urbanity in A Visit from the Goon Squad.
Riddled with Manhattanites aching to lift themselves out of varying degrees of financial frustration, the standout character for me has always been Congo Jake. When we meet him he's a peg-legged sailor docking at the teeming port. By the book's end,... more
—Tony D'Souza
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