MISS LONELYHEARTS by Nathanael West
“A masterwork...a novel of defiant originality...the novel is a triumph ...there is nothing quite like it in our literature...” – The New York Review of Books
Nathanael West took real letters from desperate people and created a dark comedy that is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.
This illustrated edition includes classic photographs of New York City during the 1930s.
“Miss Lonelyhearts feels more essential than ever.” ~ The Daily Beast
READERS’ REVIEWS:
“A brilliant work of art. Perhaps one of the greatest novels ever written.”
“This is a classic. I’m profoundly glad that I picked it up again.”
“Nathanael West is one of my all-time favorite American novelists.”
“One of the most vivid and darkly funny satires ever written about mass media and modern popular culture...Miss Lonelyhearts is, as critic Edmund Wilson called it, a miniature epic.”
“A masterpiece of 20th century writing.”
“West amazes and entertains.”
“Nathanael West died young and left little behind, but what he left is enough to place him among the ranks of great writers.”
“West’s novel has never felt more alive than today.”
“Miss Lonelyhearts cements West’s reputation as one of America’s great literary talents of the 1930s.”
“A masterwork...a novel of defiant originality...the novel is a triumph ...there is nothing quite like it in our literature...” – The New York Review of Books
Nathanael West took real letters from desperate people and created a dark comedy that is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.
This illustrated edition includes classic photographs of New York City during the 1930s.
“Miss Lonelyhearts feels more essential than ever.” ~ The Daily Beast
READERS’ REVIEWS:
“A brilliant work of art. Perhaps one of the greatest novels ever written.”
“This is a classic. I’m profoundly glad that I picked it up again.”
“Nathanael West is one of my all-time favorite American novelists.”
“One of the most vivid and darkly funny satires ever written about mass media and modern popular culture...Miss Lonelyhearts is, as critic Edmund Wilson called it, a miniature epic.”
“A masterpiece of 20th century writing.”
“West amazes and entertains.”
“Nathanael West died young and left little behind, but what he left is enough to place him among the ranks of great writers.”
“West’s novel has never felt more alive than today.”
“Miss Lonelyhearts cements West’s reputation as one of America’s great literary talents of the 1930s.”
