Nathanael West
Nathanael West was a dark satirist of the Hollywood dream factory and Depression-era despair, killed in a car accident at thirty-seven. Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust are savage, compressed masterworks.
Works
- Miss LonelyheartsNovella of newspaper advice columnist's psychological collapse amid urban despair
- The Day of the LocustSatiric novel depicting ruthless aspiration and violence in 1930s Hollywood
- A Cool MillionPicaresque satire of American individualism and social climbing in Depression era
- The Dream Life of Balso SnellSurrealist novella of intellectual journey through grotesque mythological underworld
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