John Dos Passos

Despite sickness in the final years of his life, Dos Passos presses on for adventure. He and his wife journey to Easter Island, where they explore the history behind the famous statues—called maois. “When I was a small boy,” Dos Passos says, “some kind person took me to the British Museum. There I saw a statue, a …

Love, loss, and alienation unify a collage of characters chasing the American Dream during New York’s industrial expansion. A thinly veiled critique of American capitalism from the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age.