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A Cool Million & The Dream Life of Balso Snell: Two Novels by West, Nathanael
Category: Fiction
Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West
Category: Fiction
Praised by great writers from Flannery O'Conner to Jonathan Lethem, Miss Lonelyhearts is an American classic. A newspaper reporter assigned to write the agony column in the depths of the Great Depression seeks respite from the poor souls who send in their sad letters, only to be further tormented by his ...Show more
Miss Lonelyhearts, and the Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
Category: Romance
"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 ...Show more
The Collected Works of Nathanael West by Nathanael West
Category: Classic | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The four novels gathered here constitute the complete longer works of one the most brilliant and original American writers. West's vision of American modernity is terrifyingly comical and diagnoses the tawdriness and meretriciousness of much of American popular culture. His greatest work, Miss Lonelyhea ...Show more
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
Category: Fiction
Admired by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, and Dashiell Hammett, and hailed as one of the "Best 100 English-language novels" by Time magazine, The Day of the Locust continues to influence American writers, artists, and culture. Bob Dylan wrote the classic song "Day of the Locusts" in homage and Mat ...Show more
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
Category: Classic | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'He began to wonder if he himself didn't suffer from the ingrained, morbid apathy he liked to draw in others' Tod Hackett is a brilliant young artist - and a man in danger of losing his heart. Brought to an LA studio as a set-designer, he is soon caught up in a fantasy world where the cult of celebrity ...Show more
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Tod Hackett is a brilliant young artist - and a man in danger of losing his heart. Brought to an LA studio as a set-designer, he is soon caught up in a fantasy world where the cult of celebrity rules. But when he becomes besotted by the beautiful Faye, an aspiring actress and occasional call-girl, his d ...Show more
The Day of the Locust and Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West
Category: Classic Fiction
"A sun-blazed Polaroid of its moment". (Jonathan Letham). In "The Day of the Locust" a young artist, Tod Hackett, arrives in LA full of dreams. But celebrity and artifice rule and he soon joins the ranks of the disenchanted that drift around the fringes of Hollywood. When he meets Faye Greener, an aspir ...Show more
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