Nathanael West

• Jun-1957
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• Sep-1983
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Tod Hackett is a brilliant young artist - and a man in danger of losing his heart. Brought to an LA studio as a set-designer, he is soon caught up in a fantasy world where the cult of celebrity rules. But when he becomes besotted by the beautiful Fay...

• Feb-1991
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The four novels gathered here, Miss Lonelyhearts, A Cool Million, The Day of the Locust and The Dream Life of Balso Snell, constitute the complete longer works of one the most brilliant and original American writers....

• Aug-1997
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Library of America offers the most complete collection ever published of Nathanael West's writings. Along with the four novels for which he is famous, this authoritative collection gathers stories, poetry, essays and plays, film scripts and treatment...

• Jul-2009
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"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 ...

• Dec-2009
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He is the columnist for 'Miss Lonely Hearts'. A line of readers takes him as the savior to inquire for the way of life. But he cannot even resolve his own plight: he is sneered at by the press boss, maintains a lukewarm relationship with his girlfrie...

• Jul-2012
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In The Day of the Locust a young artist, Tod Hackett, arrives in LA full of dreams. But celebrity and artifice rule and he soon joins the ranks of the disenchanted that drift around the fringes of Hollywood. When he meets Faye Greener, an aspiring ac...

• Jul-2013
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A writer’s nightmare: his degrading day job as a lonely hearts advice columnist is only the beginning

• Sep-2021
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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 ...

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"West is still a satirist with few peers and no betters, and a writer of bleak, haunting power." -- Kirkus Reviews. In this 1931 Dada-inspired work, the first novel of the author of Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust, the eponymous antiher...