{"product_id":"lonelyhearts-book-marion-meade-9780151011490","title":"Lonelyhearts","description":"A great marriage of scholarship and gossip. \u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star-Tribune\u003c\/i\u003eMeade deftly choreographs these boldface names as they rush to and fro between Hollywood and New York, those antipodes of 1930s writers. \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003eSet in the 1930s against the bright lights of New York and the klieg lights of Hollywood, a dazzling joint biography and lively snapshot of one of our most captivating erasNathanael West was a comic artist whose insight into the absurdities of modern life proved prophetic. Eileen McKenney, accidental literary heroine, was the inspiration for her sister Ruth s humorous bestseller, \u003ci\u003eMy Sister Eileen, \u003c\/i\u003e which led to stage, film, and television adaptations, including Leonard Bernstein s 1953 musical \u003ci\u003eWonderful Town.\u003c\/i\u003e Until their tragic deaths in 1940, West and McKenney were intimate with many of the notables of the era, and in this dual biography, they provide a one-of-a-kind lens into a world that continues to capture our imaginations. With trenchant insight and erudite charm, acclaimed biographer Marion Meade paints a dynamic tableau of interwar America and of two of its most charming actors.Meade s dual biography smartly plays one life against the other, maximizing the gradual tension that comes from watching two fireballs happily, and then disastrously, collide. \u003ci\u003eFree Times\u003c\/i\u003e (Columbia, SC)MARION MEADE is the author of \u003ci\u003eDorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties.\u003c\/i\u003e She has also written biographies of Woody Allen, Buster Keaton, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Madame Blavatsky, and Victoria Woodhull, as well as two novels about medieval France.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50260992196881,"sku":"CIN0151011494VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50345744236817,"sku":"CIN0151011494G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0151011494.jpg?v=1751290661","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-de\/products\/lonelyhearts-buch-marion-meade-9780151011490","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}