West, Nathanael, 1903-1940, author.
New York : New Directions, 2009.
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Part of the series New Directions paperbook 1151
Notes:

• Miss Lonelyhearts — compared by Flannery O’Connor to Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying — is about a newspaper reporter assigned to write the agony column, but, caught up in a vision of suffering, he seeks a way out (through art, sex, religion), only to be rebuffed at every turn by his cynical editor Shrike. The Day of the Locust — considered by many to be the best novel ever written about Hollywood — is about Tod Hackett, who hopes for a career in set design only to discover the boredom and emptiness of Hollywood’s inhabitants. In the end, only blood will serve. The day of the locust is at hand … –Publisher’s website.
• Miss Lonelyhearts — The day of the locust.

Subjects:

• Advice columnists — New York (State) — New York — Fiction.
• Motion picture industry — California — Los Angeles — Fiction.
• California — Los Angeles. fast (OCoLC)fst01204540
• New York (State) — New York. fast (OCoLC)fst01204333
• Fiction. fast (OCoLC)fst01423787

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