false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255606310m/5585547.jpg 294459 5 "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 Locust (1939) is West's great dystopian Hollywood novel based on his experiences at the seedy fringes of the movie industry. "The work of Nathanael West, savagely, comically, tragically original, has come into its own," said novelist and screenwriter Budd Schulberg. "A new public [has] discovered in the writings of West a brilliant reflection of its own sense of chaos and helplessness in a world running more to madness than to reason." 236076 1939 Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust total:1891|5:719|4:666|3:368|2:101|1:37| 1891 7602 2498 174 294459 0811202151 9780811202152 1704 158 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173472064m/294459.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/294459.Miss_Lonelyhearts_The_Day_of_the_Locust 5 9 false Mon Mar 10 21:37:20 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 10 21:41:23 -0700 2008 more...]]> 113442 067960278X 9780679602781 41 5 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171678516m/113442.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113442.Miss_Lonelyhearts_and_The_Day_of_the_Locust 5 3 false Sat Aug 04 11:45:02 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 04 11:45:02 -0700 2007
I am in such pain I dont know what to do sometimes I think I will kill myself my kidneys hurt so much. My husband thinks no woman can be a good catholic and not have children irregardless of the pain. I was married honorable for our church but I never knew what ...more...]]> 294459 0811202151 9780811202152 1704 158 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173472064m/294459.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/294459.Miss_Lonelyhearts_The_Day_of_the_Locust 5 1 false Mon Apr 20 04:49:16 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 05:05:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 294459 0811202151 9780811202152 1704 158 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173472064m/294459.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/294459.Miss_Lonelyhearts_The_Day_of_the_Locust 4 1 false Tue Feb 10 14:51:29 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 09 14:04:59 -0700 2009
When I was a sophomore at USC, I took an American Literature class, ENGL 263. Taught by a man named Gustafson, this was my only venture into "properly" studying books written on this continent. During my undergraduate...more...]]> 294459 0811202151 9780811202152 1704 158 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173472064m/294459.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/294459.Miss_Lonelyhearts_The_Day_of_the_Locust 5 1 false Fri Mar 07 05:22:15 -0800 2008 Fri Mar 07 05:46:02 -0800 2008 more...]]> 294459 0811202151 9780811202152 1704 158 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173472064m/294459.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/294459.Miss_Lonelyhearts_The_Day_of_the_Locust 4 1 false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 02 09:00:40 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 22 11:03:49 -0700 2008
"Miss Lonelyhearts" is the tale of a man who takes the job of advice columnist for a NY newspaper-- originally on a lark, but as he sees that his readers' problems are real and ho...more...]]> 294459 0811202151 9780811202152 1704 158 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173472064m/294459.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/294459.Miss_Lonelyhearts_The_Day_of_the_Locust 3 1 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 28 15:13:24 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 04 21:30:25 -0800 2008 more...]]> 294459 0811202151 9780811202152 1704 158 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173472064m/294459.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/294459.Miss_Lonelyhearts_The_Day_of_the_Locust 5 1 false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Dec 15 11:46:35 -0800 2007 Thu Apr 24 00:04:54 -0700 2008 more...]]> 294459 0811202151 9780811202152 1704 158 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173472064m/294459.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/294459.Miss_Lonelyhearts_The_Day_of_the_Locust 4 1 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 13 10:27:45 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 15 22:53:28 -0700 2007 Miss Lonelyhearts, and that's what I started with as well. Not really knowing anything about the novella going in, I was misled by the goofy title into thinking that I was in for a slightly wacky and fun time. This was not even remotely the case. Let me just sa...more...]]> 294459 0811202151 9780811202152 1704 158 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173472064m/294459.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/294459.Miss_Lonelyhearts_The_Day_of_the_Locust 5 1 false Sat May 19 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 29 12:11:44 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 29 12:11:44 -0700 2007 more...]]> 294459 0811202151 9780811202152 1704 158 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173472064m/294459.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/294459.Miss_Lonelyhearts_The_Day_of_the_Locust 3 0 false Thu Nov 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 20 07:58:16 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 20 08:32:16 -0800 2008 more...]]> 294459 0811202151 9780811202152 1704 158 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173472064m/294459.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/294459.Miss_Lonelyhearts_The_Day_of_the_Locust 3 1 false Sat Mar 22 12:14:29 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 12 10:22:39 -0700 2008
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