Author: Nathanael West
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811202152
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
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.
Miss Lonelyhearts
Author: Nathanael West
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811202152
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
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.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811202152
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
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.
Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust (New Edition)
Author: Nathanael West
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811219380
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
"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.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811219380
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
"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.
The Day of the Locust
Author: Nathanael West
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
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.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
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.
Please Miss
Author: Grace Lavery
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 154162064X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
“The queer memoir you’ve been waiting for”—Carmen Maria Machado Grace Lavery is a reformed druggie, an unreformed omnisexual chaos Muppet, and 100 percent, all-natural, synthetic female hormone monster. As soon as she solves her “penis problem,” she begins receiving anonymous letters, seemingly sent by a cult of sinister clowns, and sets out on a magical mystery tour to find the source of these surreal missives. Misadventures abound: Grace performs in a David Lynch remake of Sunset Boulevard and is reprogrammed as a sixties femmebot; she writes a Juggalo Ghostbusters prequel and a socialist manifesto disguised as a porn parody of a quiz show. Or is it vice versa? As Grace fumbles toward a new trans identity, she tries on dozens of different voices, creating a coat of many colors. With more dick jokes than a transsexual should be able to pull off, Please Miss gives us what we came for, then slaps us in the face and orders us to come again.
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 154162064X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
“The queer memoir you’ve been waiting for”—Carmen Maria Machado Grace Lavery is a reformed druggie, an unreformed omnisexual chaos Muppet, and 100 percent, all-natural, synthetic female hormone monster. As soon as she solves her “penis problem,” she begins receiving anonymous letters, seemingly sent by a cult of sinister clowns, and sets out on a magical mystery tour to find the source of these surreal missives. Misadventures abound: Grace performs in a David Lynch remake of Sunset Boulevard and is reprogrammed as a sixties femmebot; she writes a Juggalo Ghostbusters prequel and a socialist manifesto disguised as a porn parody of a quiz show. Or is it vice versa? As Grace fumbles toward a new trans identity, she tries on dozens of different voices, creating a coat of many colors. With more dick jokes than a transsexual should be able to pull off, Please Miss gives us what we came for, then slaps us in the face and orders us to come again.
Miss Lonelyhearts - Nathanael West
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438114036
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
A collection of essays on Nathanael West's novel, Miss Lonelyhearts, arranged in chronological order of publication.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438114036
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
A collection of essays on Nathanael West's novel, Miss Lonelyhearts, arranged in chronological order of publication.
The Dream Life of Balso Snell
Author: Nathanael West
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Nathanael West: Novels & Other Writings (LOA #93)
Author: Nathanael West
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
A collection of six works by Nathanael West.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
A collection of six works by Nathanael West.
A Cool Million
Author: Nathanael West
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 0735253714
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
A great American satirist, Nathanael West laughs in the face of the Horatio Alger myth. Like many an Alger, Lemuel Pitkin leaves his home on the farm to seek his fortune in the Big City. By the time he is through, he has been robbed, jailed, has lost his teeth, his eye, a leg, his scalp, and has witnessed a remarkable number of assults and political riots. In A Cool Million, West etches a classic parable of America in the chaotic Thirties. 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.
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 0735253714
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
A great American satirist, Nathanael West laughs in the face of the Horatio Alger myth. Like many an Alger, Lemuel Pitkin leaves his home on the farm to seek his fortune in the Big City. By the time he is through, he has been robbed, jailed, has lost his teeth, his eye, a leg, his scalp, and has witnessed a remarkable number of assults and political riots. In A Cool Million, West etches a classic parable of America in the chaotic Thirties. 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.
Lonelyhearts
Author: Marion Meade
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 9780547386386
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
" ... A dazzling joint biography of Nathanael West and his wife, set against the world of New York writers and Hollywood screenwriters in the 1930s."--Inside jacket.
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 9780547386386
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
" ... A dazzling joint biography of Nathanael West and his wife, set against the world of New York writers and Hollywood screenwriters in the 1930s."--Inside jacket.
Alive Inside the Wreck
Author: Joe Woodward
Publisher: OR Books
ISBN: 1935928384
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Joe Woodward combs through the archives at The Huntington Library and the John Hay Library at Brown University to paint a portrait of Nathanael West's obsession with violence and literature in 1930s America
Publisher: OR Books
ISBN: 1935928384
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Joe Woodward combs through the archives at The Huntington Library and the John Hay Library at Brown University to paint a portrait of Nathanael West's obsession with violence and literature in 1930s America