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Miss Lonelyhearts, & The day of the locust by Nathanael West is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"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.

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Author

Nathanael West

Publisher

New York: New Directions

Published

1969

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Children'S, Fiction

Rating

3.92 / 5 (584 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14