by Nathanael West · New Directions Publishing Corporation · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780811202152
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«Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust» is the volume that brings together two novels by Nathanael West in paperback (247 pages, in English).
A journalist in charge of the advice column 'Miss Lonelyhearts' becomes trapped by his readers' suffering; his cynical editor Shrike sabotages every escape. The second novel follows Tod Hackett, an aspiring set designer, who arrives in Hollywood and observes how the mass of California migrants, consumed by boredom, ends in blind violence.
1969 edition from New Directions Publishing Corporation.
For readers of twentieth-century American classics and literary fiction with a pessimistic outlook.
Nathanael West was an American writer and screenwriter. He is remembered for two darkly satirical novels: Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) and The Day of the Locust (1939), set respectively in the newspaper and Hollywood film industries.
