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This is a four-star book marred by a two-star ending. A series of jagged, abrupt vignettes with great imagery evokes the experiences of an American ambulance driver in the Great War, but it's rather spoiled by a heavy-handed discussion of a new world order by the various soldiers and noncombatants at the end. Still worthwhile for its prose style and recommended as a notable contemporary account.
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I read this because dos Passos was one of those Lost Generation writers, grouped in with Hemingway and Fitzgerald. Not unexpectedly the novel portrays the horrors of war. If reading sense impressions mean anything, I'd say All Quiet on the Western Frontor any of Hemingway's war novels are superior.
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Mar 24, 2019
Stacey
marked it as to-read
