The novel comes from the Dos Passos trilogy, U.S.A. It describes the US in the '20s with "hogwild material prosperity [that] cripples the national life." (back cover) The author writes with revulsion for the chracters and the times which Alfred Kazin calls "an epic of democracy" that describes "the energy of disenchantment." Sound familiar? Pages: 557; 7" x 4.12"