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    Cool Million Dream Life Balso Snell: Two Novels

    Nathanael West

    Nathanael West was only thirty-seven when he died in 1940, but his depictions of the sometimes comic, sometimes horrifying aspects of the American scene rival those of William Faulkner and…

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    The Day of the Locust

    Nathanael West

    The great Hollywood novel is now available as a stand-alone New Directions edition

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    Miss Lonelyhearts

    Nathanael West

    Miss Lonelyhearts is a novella by Nathanael West. It is about a male newspaper advice columnist who provides advice to lonesome people who becomes so affected by their desperate letters…

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    The Day of the Locust

    Nathanael West

    The Day of the Locust is a 1939 novel by American author Nathanael West, set in Hollywood, California during the Great Depression, its overarching themes deal with the alienation and…

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    The Day of the Locust

    Nathanael West

    The Day of the Locust is a 1939 novel by American author Nathanael West, set in Hollywood, California during the Great Depression, its overarching themes deal with the alienation and…

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    The Day of the Locust and the Dream Life of Balso Snell

    Nathanael West

    Tod Hackett is a brilliant young artist - and a man in danger of losing his heart. Brought to an LA studio as a set-designer, he is soon caught up…

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    Miss Lonelyhearts

    Nathanael West

    Full of dark humour, wicked irony and razor sharp insight, this is one of the most intelligent and hilarious works of the 20th Century.

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    The Day of the Locust and Miss Lonelyhearts

    Nathanael West

    In The Day of the Locust a young artist, Tod Hackett, arrives in LA full of dreams. When he meets Faye Greener, an aspiring actress, he is intoxicated and his…

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    The Day of the Locust

    Nathanael West

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    Nathanael West

    The great Hollywood novel is now available as a stand-alone New Directions edition

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    The Writing of Nathanael West

    Alistair Wisker

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    Nathanael West: An Interpretive Study

    James F. Light

    This study of the novels of Nathanael West begins with the important threads of West’s life and their relationship to his works. James Light gives a detailed analysis of each…

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    Nathanael West: An Interpretive Study

    James F Light

    Nathanael West: An Interpretive Study by James F. Light is a comprehensive analysis of the life and works of Nathanael West, an American author and screenwriter. The book provides a…

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    Miss Lonelyhearts

    Nathanael West

    A writer’s nightmare: his degrading day job as a lonely hearts advice columnist is only the beginning

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    Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust

    Nathanael West

    A primer for Big Bad City disillusionment, unsparing in its portrayal of New York’s debilitating entropy. -The Village Voice. With a new introduction by Jonathan Lethem.

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    Study Guide to The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West

    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Nathanael West’s The Day of the Locust, one of West’s great novels that comments on the social and…

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    A Study Guide for Nathanael West’s The Day of the Locust

    Cengage Learning Gale

    A Study Guide for Nathanael West’s The Day of the Locust, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…

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    Modernism in ‘The Day of the Locust’ (1939) by Nathanael West

    Linda Schug

    Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Frankfurt (Main), course: Decadence and Moderism in the Late 20th Century American Cinema…

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    Lonelyhearts: the Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen Mckenny

    Marion Meade

    Nathanael West was a comic artist whose insight into the brutalities and absurdities of modern life proved prophetic. Eileen McKenney, accidental muse and literary heroine, fled Cleveland in search of…

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    Ein Roman mit Apellfunktion - Nathanael Wests - The Day of the Locust

    Eva Steinbrecher

    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik - Literatur, Note: 2,0, Universitat Hamburg (Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik), Veranstaltung: Daniel Fuchs and Nathanael West: Non-Proletarian Jewish-American Fiction in the…

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    Nathanael West - American Writers 21: University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers

    Stanley Edgar Hyman

    Nathanael West - American Writers 21 was first published in 1962. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the…

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    The Great Depression and the Culture of Abundance: Kenneth Fearing, Nathanael West, and Mass Culture in the 1930s

    Rita Barnard (University of Pennsylvania)

    Examines the response of American leftist writers from the 1930s to the rise of mass culture, and to the continued propagation of the values of consumerism during the Depression. It…

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    The Great Depression and the Culture of Abundance: Kenneth Fearing, Nathanael West, and Mass Culture in the 1930s

    Rita Barnard (University of Pennsylvania)

    Examines the response of American leftist writers from 1930s to the rise of mass culture, and to the continued propagation of the values of consumerism during the Depression. Tracing in…

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    Freaks in Late Modernist American Culture

    Nancy Bombaci

    Freaks in Late Modernist American Culture explores the emergence of what Nancy Bombaci terms "late modernist freakish aesthetics" - a creative fusion of "high" and "low" themes and forms in…

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    Some Time in the Sun: The Hollywood Years of F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Nathanael West, Aldous Huxley & J Agee

    Tom Dardis

    SOME TIME IN THE SUN

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