Miss Lonelyhearts, and the Day of the Locust - Softcover

West, Henry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811202151 ISBN 13: 9780811202152

Publisher: New Directions, 1969

Synopsis

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

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Review:

In dark times, Miss Lonelyhearts shines the brightest light in the blackest places. For this reason West s novel has never felt more alive than today. --Nathaniel Rich"

From the Back 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 1969
• ISBN 10: 0811202151
• ISBN 13: 9780811202152
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 185