Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West
During his years in Hollywood West wroteThe Day of the Locust, a study of the fragility of illusion. Many critics consider it with F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished masterpiece The Last Tycoon (1941) among the best novels written about Hollywood. Set in Hollywood during the Depression, the narrator, Tod Hackett, comes to California in the hope of a career as a painter for movie backdrops but soon joins the disenchanted second-rate actors, technicians, laborers and other characters living on the fringes of the movie industry. Tod tries to seduce Faye Greener; she is seventeen. Her protector is an old man named Homer Simpson. Tod finds work on a film called prophetically The Burning of Los Angeles, and the dark comic tale ends in an apocalyptic mob riot outside a Hollywood premiere, as the system runs out of control.Nathanael West was a relatively unknown writer in 1940, having written just four short books when he was killed in an automobile accident. Since then, West's reputation has expanded significantly, and he is now widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's most important authors. West, who was born in New York, worked as a night manager at the Kenmore Hotel on East 23rd Street in Manhattan, a contract scriptwriter for Columbia Pictures in Hollywood, and a screenwriter for RKO Radio Pictures.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780679602781 |
| ISBN 10 | 067960278X |
| Title | Miss Lonelyhearts |
| Author | Nathanael West |
| Series | Modern Library |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 1998-03-24 |
| Number of pages | 308 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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