Manhattan Transfer

Using experimental montage techniques borrowed from the cinema, descriptions and bursts of overheard conversation, and jumbled case histories of a picaresque cast of characters from dockside crapshooters to high-society flappers, the author constructs a portrait of New York City as a futuristic machine filled with motion, drama and human tragedy.

Folosind tehnici experimentale de montaj imprumutate de la cinema, descrieri si explozii de conversatii auzite, si istorii de caz amestecate ale unei distributii picaresce de personaje, de la tragatori de porcari la doc pana la flappers din inalta societate, autorul construieste un portret al orasului New York ca o masina futurista plina de miscare, drama si tragedie umana.