John Dos Passos
Two early Dos Passos books, written before the U.S.A. trilogy made his name. One Man's Initiation: 1917 was his first novel, drawn from the diaries he kept as an ambulance driver on the Western Front, and it sold 63 copies in its first six months. Rosinante to the Road Again follows two travellers on foot from Madrid to Toledo.
John Dos Passos (1896-1970) was an American novelist and one of the foremost chroniclers of the modern age, best known for his U.S.A. trilogy. Born in Chicago, he served as a volunteer ambulance driver in the First World War and travelled widely in Europe. Skomlin also publishes Dos Passos's One Man's Initiation: 1917.
Titles at Skomlin
The title alludes to Don Quixote's horse. Dos Passos spins a tale of two travellers making their way by foot from Madrid to Toledo in post-World War I Spain. Dos Passos interweaves the story with chapters about the finest Hispanic poets and novelists of the day. One of his earliest books and a most poetic use of language.
Drawing on the diaries he kept as a volunteer ambulance driver on the Western Front, Dos Passos's first novel sets the squalor and broken bodies of 1917 against sudden, piercing glimpses of beauty.