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West, Nathanael, 1903-1940.
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Advice columnists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Motion picture industry -- California -- Los Angeles -- Fiction.
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Miss Lonelyhearts ; ...
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Miss Lonelyhearts ; &, The day of the locust / Nathanael West ; introduction by Jonathan Lethem ; afterword by John Sanford.
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West, Nathanael, 1903-1940.
New York : New Directions, 2009.
Subjects
Advice columnists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Motion picture industry -- California -- Los Angeles -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780811218221 (paperback : alk. paper)
0811218228 (paperback : alk. paper)
Series:
New Directions paperbook ; 1151.
Description:
xi, 191 pages ; 21 cm.
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Miss Lonelyhearts -- The day of the locust.
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"Miss Lonelyhearts -- compared by Flannery O'Connor to Faulkner's As I Lay Dying -- is about a newspaper reporter assigned to write the agony column, but, caught up in a vision of suffering, he seeks a way out (through art, sex, religion), only to be rebuffed at every turn by his cynical editor Shrike. The Day of the Locust -- considered by many to be the best novel ever written about Hollywood -- is about Tod Hackett, who hopes for a career in set design only to discover the boredom and emptiness of Hollywood's inhabitants. In the end, only blood will serve. The day of the locust is at hand ..."--Publisher's website.
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