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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     West, Nathanael, 1903-1940.     Subjects     Advice columnists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.     Motion picture industry -- California -- Los Angeles -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      West, Nathanael, 1903-1940.       by title:      Miss Lonelyhearts ; ...         MARC Display

Miss Lonelyhearts ; &, The day of the locust / Nathanael West ; introduction by Jonathan Lethem ; afterword by John Sanford. by 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. Contents:  Miss Lonelyhearts -- The day of the locust. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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