Author: Nathanael West
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
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
The Dream Life of Balso Snell
Author: Nathanael West
Publisher: Olympia Press
ISBN:
Category : Dreams
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Two tales of fiction.
Publisher: Olympia Press
ISBN:
Category : Dreams
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Two tales of fiction.
A Cool Million and The Dream Life of Balso Snell
Author: Nathanael West
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374530273
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Nathanael West was only thirty-seven when he died in 1940, but his depictions of the sometimes comic, sometimes horrifying aspects of the American scene rival those of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor. A Cool Million, written in 1934, is a satiric Horatio Alger story set in the midst of the Depression. The Dream Life of Balso Snell (1931) was described by one critic as "a fantasy about some rather scatological adventures of the hero in the innards of the Trojan horse."
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374530273
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Nathanael West was only thirty-seven when he died in 1940, but his depictions of the sometimes comic, sometimes horrifying aspects of the American scene rival those of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor. A Cool Million, written in 1934, is a satiric Horatio Alger story set in the midst of the Depression. The Dream Life of Balso Snell (1931) was described by one critic as "a fantasy about some rather scatological adventures of the hero in the innards of the Trojan horse."
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.
Nathanael West
Author: Jay Martin
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
ISBN: 9780881840308
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
Authoritative narrative of the life, work, ambitions, successes, and thought of the prophetic twentieth-century American novelist
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
ISBN: 9780881840308
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
Authoritative narrative of the life, work, ambitions, successes, and thought of the prophetic twentieth-century American novelist
A Cool Million
Author: Nathanael West
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780464989509
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
A Cool Million subtitled "The Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin," is a satiric Horatio Alger story set in the midst of the Depression and is written in a bracing, mock-heroic style that has lost none of its wit or power.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780464989509
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
A Cool Million subtitled "The Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin," is a satiric Horatio Alger story set in the midst of the Depression and is written in a bracing, mock-heroic style that has lost none of its wit or power.
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Author: Peter Hedges
Publisher: Rosetta Books
ISBN: 0795343221
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
“Wonderfully entertaining . . . This distinctive first novel goes down like a chocolate milkshake but boasts the sharpness and finesse of a complex wine” (Publishers Weekly). Gilbert Grape is a twenty-four-year-old grocery store clerk stuck in Endora, Iowa, where the population is 1,091 and shrinking. After the suicide of Gilbert’s father, his family never fully recovered. Once the town beauty queen, Gilbert’s mother is now morbidly obese and planted eternally in front of the TV; his younger sister has recently turned both boy-crazy and God-fearing, while his older sister sacrifices everything for her family. And then there’s Arnie, Gilbert’s younger brother with special needs. With no one else to care for Arnie, Gilbert becomes his brother’s main parent, and all four siblings must tend to the needs of their helpless, grieving mother. So Gilbert is in a rut—until a mysterious new girl named Becky arrives in this small town. As his family gathers for Arnie’s eighteenth birthday, Gilbert finds himself at a crossroads . . . This “completely original” portrait of a family (The New York Times), “charged with sardonic intelligence” (The Washington Post Book World), was the basis for a film starring Johnny Depp and Leonardo DiCaprio, and stands as one of the most memorable novels of recent decades. “Sometimes funny, sometimes sad . . . and always engaging.” —The Atlantic “By the book’s exhilaratingly luminous ending . . . we have already been mesmerized.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer “A funny, touching, caring first novel whose characters are familiar and moving in spite of (or perhaps because of) their peculiarities.” —Booklist
Publisher: Rosetta Books
ISBN: 0795343221
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
“Wonderfully entertaining . . . This distinctive first novel goes down like a chocolate milkshake but boasts the sharpness and finesse of a complex wine” (Publishers Weekly). Gilbert Grape is a twenty-four-year-old grocery store clerk stuck in Endora, Iowa, where the population is 1,091 and shrinking. After the suicide of Gilbert’s father, his family never fully recovered. Once the town beauty queen, Gilbert’s mother is now morbidly obese and planted eternally in front of the TV; his younger sister has recently turned both boy-crazy and God-fearing, while his older sister sacrifices everything for her family. And then there’s Arnie, Gilbert’s younger brother with special needs. With no one else to care for Arnie, Gilbert becomes his brother’s main parent, and all four siblings must tend to the needs of their helpless, grieving mother. So Gilbert is in a rut—until a mysterious new girl named Becky arrives in this small town. As his family gathers for Arnie’s eighteenth birthday, Gilbert finds himself at a crossroads . . . This “completely original” portrait of a family (The New York Times), “charged with sardonic intelligence” (The Washington Post Book World), was the basis for a film starring Johnny Depp and Leonardo DiCaprio, and stands as one of the most memorable novels of recent decades. “Sometimes funny, sometimes sad . . . and always engaging.” —The Atlantic “By the book’s exhilaratingly luminous ending . . . we have already been mesmerized.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer “A funny, touching, caring first novel whose characters are familiar and moving in spite of (or perhaps because of) their peculiarities.” —Booklist
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.
The Complete Works of Nathanael West
Author: Nathanael West
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Cudahy
ISBN:
Category : Advice columnists
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
'The Dream Life of Balso Snell' (1931), originally published in Paris, is in words of Robert Coates 'a fantasy, about some rather scatological adventures of the hero in the innards of the Trojan Horse.' 'Miss Lonelyhearts' (1933) is considered his [the author's] masterpiece. 'It is one of the books, ' writes Malcolm Cowley, 'that had very few readers for the first edition, but simply refuse to be forgotten.' 'A Cool Million' (1936), with the subtitle, 'The Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin, ' is a satiric success story in the midst of the depression, written in mock Horatio Alger Style. 'The Day of the Locust' (1939), which is considered the best novel ever written about Hollywood, is a savage indictment.'
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Cudahy
ISBN:
Category : Advice columnists
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
'The Dream Life of Balso Snell' (1931), originally published in Paris, is in words of Robert Coates 'a fantasy, about some rather scatological adventures of the hero in the innards of the Trojan Horse.' 'Miss Lonelyhearts' (1933) is considered his [the author's] masterpiece. 'It is one of the books, ' writes Malcolm Cowley, 'that had very few readers for the first edition, but simply refuse to be forgotten.' 'A Cool Million' (1936), with the subtitle, 'The Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin, ' is a satiric success story in the midst of the depression, written in mock Horatio Alger Style. 'The Day of the Locust' (1939), which is considered the best novel ever written about Hollywood, is a savage indictment.'
The Towers of Trebizond
Author: Rose Macaulay
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 9781590170588
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Serio-comic novel about English eccentrics who travel in Turkey.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 9781590170588
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Serio-comic novel about English eccentrics who travel in Turkey.