Miss Lonelyhearts: And the Day of the Locust

Title: Miss Lonelyhearts: And the Day of the Locust Author: Nathanael West ISBN: 0811202151 Publisher: New Directions Published: 1969 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: Used: Good Fiction 1635175 Publisher Description: "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 prophetic writer whose dark and comic vision of a society obsessed with mass-produced fantasies foretold much of what was to come in American life. Miss Lonelyhearts (1933), which West envisioned as "a novel in the form of a comic strip, " tells of an advice-to-the-lovelorn columnist who becomes tragically embroiled in the desperate lives of his readers. The Day of the