Miss Lonelyhearts and the Day of the Locust

Description

"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.

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Other Editions

• Miss Lonelyhearts and the Day of the LocustHarperCollins Publishers2014-01-01
• Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day Of The LocustA New Directions Paperbook1933-01-01
• Miss Lonelyhearts & the Day of the LocustNew Directions1950-01-01
• Miss LonelyheartsNew Directions1962-01-01
• Miss LonelyheartsNew Directions1962-01-01
• Day of the locustJ. Laughlin1962-01-01