Miss Lonelyhearts & the Day of the Locust
by Nathanael West
from New Directions Publishing Corporation
"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."
The Day of the Locust (Signet Classic)
by Nathanael West
from Signet Classics
A Cool Million and The Dream Life of Balso Snell: Two Novels
by Nathanael West
from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The Day of the Locust and the Dream Life of Balso Snell" (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Nathanael West
from Penguin Classics
Nathanael West : Novels and Other Writings : The Dream Life of Balso Snell / Miss Lonelyhearts / A Cool Million / The Day of the Locust / Letters (Library of America)
by Nathanael West
from Library of America
In 1940, when an automobile accident prematurely claimed Nathanael West's life, he was a relatively obscure writer, the author of only four short novels. West's reputation has grown considerably since then and he is now considered one of the 20th century's major authors. This superb volume, edited by Sacvan Bercovitch, compiles all of West's novels and a great number of other documents, including stories, plays, and letters. Novels and Other Writings is the most complete West now available in a single volume. Film buffs will be particularly fascinated by Miss Lonelyhearts, which served as the basis for two intriguing movies and The Day of the Locust, West's final novel, which many consider to be the most withering attack on Hollywood ever written. Among the papers included in this collection are a never-filmed screenplay, Before the Fact, and a screen treatment of West's novel A Cool Million.
Two Novels (The Dream Life of Balso Snell & A Cool Million)
by Nathanael West
from Farrar, Straus & Company
1978 Farrar, Straus & Company. First Edition /Twelfth Printing. Paperback, 179 pages. Two Novels: The Dream Life of Balso Snell & A Cool Million
Miss Lonelyhearts
by Nathanael West
from Avon books
4-1/4" x7" paperback. A comedy with tragic implications.
The Dream Life of Balso Snell
by Nathanael West
from Dover Publications
Complete Works of Nathanael West (Picador Classics)
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