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Miss Lonelyhearts and the Day of the Locust by Nathanael West (1962, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherNew Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN-100811202151
ISBN-139780811202152
eBay Product ID (ePID)182491
Product Key Features
Book TitleMiss Lonelyhearts and the Day of the Locust
Number of Pages1 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral, Literary
Publication Year1962
GenreFiction
AuthorNathanael West
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight13 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN62-016924
Dewey Edition19
Dewey Decimal813/.52
Synopsis"Somehow or other I seem to have slipped in between all the 'schools,' " observed Nathanael West the year before his untimely death in 1940. "My books meet no needs except my own, their circulation is practically private and I'm lucky to be published." Yet today, West is widely recognized as a prophetic writer whose dark and comic vision of a society obsessed with mass- produced fantasies foretold much of what was to come in American life. Miss Lonelyhearts (1933), which West envisioned as "a novel in the form of a comic strip," tells of an advice-to-the-lovelorn columnist who becomes tragically embroiled in the desperate lives of his readers. The Day of the Locust (1939) is West's great dystopian Hollywood novel based on his experiences at the seedy fringes of the movie industry. "The work of Nathanael West, savagely, comically, tragically original, has come into its own," said novelist and screenwriter Budd Schulberg. "A new public [has] discovered in the writings of West a brilliant reflection of its own sense of chaos and helplessness in a world running more to madness than to reason.", Two short novels, one set in New York and the other in Hollywood, dramatically depict the extremes of the human condition and the destructive forces pervading modern American life.
LC Classification NumberPS3545.E8334
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- 26 Aug, 2017
This holds true from the 30's..
I thought city life and the will to make it is crazy today... Reading these two great stories, I realize nothing has changed! This is one of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson's favorite authors! (and J. Depp read Mr. Wolf's stories before meeting the good Doc.. Depp said it's probably why they got along so well)Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
