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Miss Lonelyhearts and the Day of the Locust Paperback Nathanael West
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A book that has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, with the dust jacket included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. May be very minimal identifying marks on the inside cover. Very minimal wear and tear.
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Located in: Lutz, Florida, United States
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eBay item number:154313843610
Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780811202152
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10
0811202151
ISBN-13
9780811202152
eBay Product ID (ePID)
182491
Product Key Features
Book Title
Miss Lonelyhearts and the Day of the Locust
Number of Pages
1 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, Literary
Publication Year
1962
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
13 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
62-016924
Dewey Edition
19
Dewey Decimal
813/.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 Number
PS3545.E8334
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