An Austrian polo player in this novel named Max murders the Cuban Tony, who had earlier helped a woman escape from her rapist stepfather, Mandeville.
This book's ambiguous final section describes how a "young man waits at the edge of the concrete, with one hand he grips a rubbed suitcase of phony leather, the other hand almost making a fist, thumbs up." An Austrian polo player in this novel named Max murders the Cuban Tony, who had earlier helped a woman escape from her rapist stepfather, Mandeville. A character in this novel tries to exploit his brother's status as a war hero to help advertise his Ford dealership. This novel, which concludes with the section "Vag," includes biographies of Rudolph Valentino and Thorstein Veblen. This novel includes the line "all right we are two nations," referring to the Sacco and Vanzetti trial, in one of its "Camera Eye" sections. In this novel, Margo Dowling becomes a movie star, and the pilot Charley Anderson dies after descending into alcoholism. For 10 points, name this 1936 novel by John Dos Passos, the final installment in the U.S.A. trilogy.
This book's ambiguous final section describes how a "young man waits at the edge of the concrete, with one hand he grips a rubbed suitcase of phony leather, the other hand almost making a fist, thumbs up."
The Big Money [prompt on "U.S.A. (trilogy)"]