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Miss Lonelyhearts: And the Day of the Locust
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by Nathanael West (Author) (edit contributors)

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"Somehow or other I seem to have slipped in between all the 'schools,' " observed Nathanael West the year before his untimely death in 1940. "My books meet no needs except my own, their circulation is practically private and I'm lucky to be published." Yet today, West is widely recognized as a... read more

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  1. Miss Lonelyhearts

    Miss Lonelyhearts

    by Nathanael West (Author)

    Miss Lonelyhearts is Nathanael West's second novel. It is an Expressionist black comedy set in New York City during the Great Depression. In the story, Miss Lonelyhearts is an unnamed male newspaper columnist writing an advice column which...

  2. The Day of the Locust

    The Day of the Locust

    by Nathanael West
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  • “... the forty years of his life had been entirely without variety or excitement. As a bookeeper he had worked mechanically, totaling figures and making figures with the same impersonal detachment that he now opened cans of soup and made his bed.Someone watching him go about his little cottage might have thought him sleep walking or partially blind. His hands seemed to have a life and will of their own. It was they who pulled the sheets tight and shaped the pillows.-The Day of the Locust”
  • “At college, and perhaps a year afterwards, they had believed in literature, had believed in Beauty and personal expression as at absolute end. When they lost this belief they lost everything.-Miss Lonelyhearts”

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The Miss Lonelyhearts of the New York Post-Dispatch (Are you in trouble?-Do-you-need-advice?-Write-to-Miss-Lonelyhearts-and-she-will-help-you) sat at his desk and stared at a piece of white cardboard.

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  1. Nathanael West (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: New Directions
Country: United States
Publication Date: June 1969
ISBN: 978-0811202152
Page Count: 208

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