Miss Lonelyhearts
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491_9781925788884
West, a parodist with rancid genius, achieved his masterwork in Miss Lonelyhearts. - Harold BloomAn American classic praised by great writers from Flannery OConner to Jonathan Lethem, Miss Lonelyhearts is an Expressionist black comedy set in New York City during the Great Depression. The blackly comic energy of Nathanael Wests Miss Lonelyhearts - its caustic ebullience, the strange buoyancy of its suffering - is a remarkably American achievement, a kind of death-dance capered on the corpse of a vividly rendered early 1930s Manhattan. In the darkening curl of the Depression, misery is the fulcrum of national experience, a dismal engine that purrs especially for Wests titular protagonist. As a newspaper advice columnist, he is privy to the secret despair of an American chorus: the lost, the young, the deformed, the forgotten. A decidedly off-kilter, darkly comic tale.My favorite work of modern American fiction. - Harold BloomIn dark times, Miss Lonelyhearts shines the brightest light in the blackest places. For this reason Wests novel has never felt more alive than today. - The Daily BeastThe most diabolical humor ... - John FanteScenes of extraordinary power ... vividly drawn grotesques. - F. Scott FitzgeraldBy applying the magpie aesthetics of Surrealism and T.S. Eliot to the American Grain, by delving into the popular culture and emerging not with surrender or refusal but a razor-cool critique, West became the great precursor to Heller, Pynchon, Philip K. Dick, George Saunders, and so much else. -Jonathan Lethem[Wests] novels say more about the way we live now - and the things that brought us to our present pass - than any other work of fiction I can think of. - The New YorkerNathanael Wests stunning four novels are American tales, rooted in our transmogrifying soil. Morality plays they are, classified as comedies. They are indeed often funny. Funny as a crutch. - Elizabeth Hardwick, The New York Review of BooksAdmired by F. S
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