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Complete works of Nathanael West.
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- ISBN: 0374127727
- ISBN: 9780374127725
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Physical Description:
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421 p. ; 20 cm. - Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1957.
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Formatted Contents Note: | The dream life of Balso Snell -- Miss Lonelyhearts -- A cool million -- The day of the locust. |
Summary, etc.: | "'The Dream Life of Balso Snell' (1931), originally published in Paris, is in words of Robert Coates 'a fantasy, about some rather scatological adventures of the hero in the innards of the Trojan Horse.' 'Miss Lonelyhearts' (1933) is considered his [the author's] masterpiece. 'It is one of the books,' writes Malcolm Cowley, 'that had very few readers for the first edition, but simply refuse to be forgotten.' 'A Cool Million' (1936), with the subtitle, 'The Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin,' is a satiric success story in the midst of the depression, written in mock Horatio Alger Style. 'The Day of the Locust' (1939), which is considered the best novel ever written about Hollywood, is a savage indictment.'" |
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