| Description |
xi, 191 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
New Directions paperbook ; 1151
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| Summary |
"Miss Lonelyhearts -- compared by Flannery O'Connor to Faulkner's As I Lay Dying -- is about a newspaper reporter assigned to write the agony column, but, caught up in a vision of suffering, he seeks a way out (through art, sex, religion), only to be rebuffed at every turn by his cynical editor Shrike. The Day of the Locust -- considered by many to be the best novel ever written about Hollywood -- is about Tod Hackett, who hopes for a career in set design only to discover the boredom and emptiness of Hollywood's inhabitants. In the end, only blood will serve. The day of the locust is at hand..."--Publisher's website. |
| Contents |
Miss Lonelyhearts -- The day of the locust |
| Subject |
Advice columnists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
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Motion picture industry -- California -- Los Angeles -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
West, Nathanael, 1903-1940
Day of the locust.
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| ISBN |
9780811218221 paperback alkaline paper |
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0811218228 paperback alkaline paper |
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