Miss Lonelyhearts ; A Cool Million, Or, The Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin
Nathanael WestPublished2000
Pages199
Formatpaperback
PublisherPenguin
Synopsis
Miss Lonelyhearts, published in 1933, is Nathanael West's second novel. It is an Expressionist black comedy set in New York City during the Great Depression."Money and fame meant nothing to them. They were not worldly men.""Wildly funny, desperately sad, brutal and kind, furious and patient, there was no other like Nathanael West.”–Dorothy Parker
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About Nathanael West
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Nathanael West
1903–1940
Nathan Wallenstein Weinstein was born in 1903 in New York City. He attended Brown University and from 1924 to 1931 he lived in Paris, where he wrote *The Dream Life of Balso Snell*. On his return to New York, he managed a residential hotel and was associate editor, with [William Carlos Williams](https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL219856A/William_Carlos_Williams), of the magazine *Contact*. *Miss Lonelyhearts* appeared in 1933, *A Cool Million* in 1934 and *The Day of the Locust* in 1939. He worked on film scripts in Hollywood for the last five years of his life. He and his wife were tragically killed in a car accident in 1940. *--Penguin Books* Photo *--Wikicommons*
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