The book analyzes the main trends in the development of the American novel of the interwar period in the works of T. Dreiser, W. Faulkner, E. Hemingway, D. Dos Passos, S. Fitzgerald, D. Steinbeck; examines the aesthetic refraction of the social processes of American reality in the 1920s and 1930s. The book is designed for a wide range of readers.