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Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust Paperback - 2009
by West, Nathanael
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These two dark stories, and the most notable works of the short career of Nathanael West, remain stunningly powerful pieces of fiction more than 75 years after their original publication.
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- Title Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust
- Author West, Nathanael
- Binding Paperback
- Edition New
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher New Directions, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2009-06-23
- Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0811218228-7-1-13
- ISBN 9780811218221 / 0811218228
- Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.5 in (20.07 x 12.95 x 1.27 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Los Angeles (Calif.), New York (N.Y.)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009010505
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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From the rear cover
"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.