Miss Lonelyhearts The Day Of The Locust

Author : Nathanael West
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811202152
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miss Lonelyhearts written by Nathanael West and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1969 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two classic short stories, one about a male reporter who writes an advice column, and the other, about people who have migrated to California in expectation of health and ease.

Author : Nathanael West
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822207634
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miss Lonelyhearts written by Nathanael West and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1959-10 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: As described by Atkinson in the NY Times: A scornful feature editor of a newspaper picks an ambitious young reporter to conduct the advice of the lovelorn column. Ambitious, opportunistic, 'Miss Lonelyhearts,' as the conductor of the co

Author : Nathanael West
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811218221
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miss Lonelyhearts written by Nathanael West and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Nathanael West
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Day of the Locust written by Nathanael West and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Day of the Locust" by Nathanael West. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Nathanael West
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811219380
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust (New Edition) written by Nathanael West and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06-23 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A primer for Big Bad City disillusionment, unsparing in its portrayal of New York's debilitating entropy."—The Village Voice. With a new introduction by Jonathan Lethem. First published in 1933, Miss Lonelyhearts remains one of the most shocking works of 20th century American literature, as unnerving as a glob of black bile vomited up at a church social: empty, blasphemous, and horrific. Set in New York during the Depression and probably West's most powerful work, Miss Lonelyhearts concerns a nameless man assigned to produce a newspaper advice column — but as time passes he begins to break under the endless misery of those who write in, begging him for advice. Unable to find answers, and with his shaky Christianity ridiculed to razor-edged shards by his poisonous editor, he tumbles into alcoholism and a madness fueled by his own spiritual emptiness. During his years in Hollywood West wrote The Day of the Locust, a study of the fragility of illusion. Many critics consider it with F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished masterpiece The Last Tycoon (1941) among the best novels written about Hollywood. Set in Hollywood during the Depression, the narrator, Tod Hackett, comes to California in the hope of a career as a painter for movie backdrops but soon joins the disenchanted second-rate actors, technicians, laborers and other characters living on the fringes of the movie industry. Tod tries to seduce Faye Greener; she is seventeen. Her protector is an old man named Homer Simpson. Tod finds work on a film called prophetically “The Burning of Los Angeles,” and the dark comic tale ends in an apocalyptic mob riot outside a Hollywood premiere, as the system runs out of control.

Author : Nathanael West
Publisher : Arrow
ISBN 13 : 9780099573166
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Day of the Locust and Miss Lonelyhearts written by Nathanael West and published by Arrow. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 aspiring actress, he is intoxicated and his desperate passion explodes into rage... The edition also includes the off-kilter, darkly comic tale Miss Lonelyhearts"--page [4] of cover.

Author : Nathanael West
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miss Lonelyhearts written by Nathanael West and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Nathanael West
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 0735253722
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miss Lonelyhearts written by Nathanael West and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miss Lonelyhearts is a decidedly off-kilter, darkly comic tale set in New York in the early 1930s. A nameless man is assigned to produce a newspaper advice column. It was meant to be a joke. But as endless letters from the Desperate, Sick-of-it-All and Disillusioned pile up for Miss Lonelyhearts's attention the joke begins to escape him. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.

Author : Nathanael West
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dream Life of Balso Snell written by Nathanael West and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marion Meade
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 054748867X
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lonelyhearts written by Marion Meade and published by HMH. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “breezily entertaining” look at the comic couple who hobnobbed with Dorothy Parker, S. J. Perelman, Bennett Cerf, and other luminaries of their day (The New York Times Book Review). Nathanael West—author, screenwriter, playwright—was famous for two masterpieces: Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust, which remains one the most penetrating novels ever written about Hollywood. He was also one of the most gifted and original writers of his generation, a scathing satirist whose insight into the brutalities of modern life proved prophetic. Eileen McKenney—accidental muse, literary heroine—grew up corn-fed in the Midwest and moved to Manhattan’s Greenwich Village when she was twenty-one. The inspiration for her sister Ruth’s stories in the New Yorker under the banner of “My Sister Eileen,” she became an overnight celebrity, and her star eventually crossed with that of the man she would impulsively marry. Together, Nathanael and Eileen had entrée into a social circle that included F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dashiell Hammett, Katharine White, and many of the literary, theatrical, and film luminaries of the era. But their carefree, offbeat Broadway-to-Hollywood love story would flame out almost as soon as it began. Now, with “a great marriage of scholarship and gossip” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune), this biography restores West and McKenney to their rightful place in the popular imagination, offering “a shrewd portrait of two people who in their different ways were noteworthy participants in American culture during one of its liveliest periods” (Los Angeles Times). “Opens a window onto the lives of writers in 1930s America as they struggled with anxieties, pretensions, temptations and myths that confound our culture to this day.” —Salon.com “The first to fully chronicle and entwine these careening lives, Meade forges an engrossing, madcap, and tragic American story of ambition, reinvention, and risk.” —Booklist, starred review