The Complete Works Of Nathanael West
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Wear and tear. Chipped along spine and folds. Significant damage around spine of jacket - missing part of bottom and top. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning. Markings: none. Binding condition: Binding intact.
Few American voices of the twentieth century cut as sharply or as darkly as Nathanael West's, and this definitive collection brings together all four of his novels under one cover. From the savage satire of Miss Lonelyhearts — in which a newspaper advice columnist drowns in the despair of his readers — to the Hollywood apocalypse of The Day of the Locust, West's fiction chronicles a America riddled with broken dreams, grotesque ambition, and the hollow promises of mass culture. The Dream Life of Balso Snell and A Cool Million round out the collection, the latter a blistering inversion of the Horatio Alger myth that presents the American Dream as a machinery of ruin. West's prose is lean, ferocious, and perpetually ahead of its time — a surrealist scalpel applied to the body of a society in crisis. His influence on American literature is immeasurable, with echoes traceable through Thomas Pynchon, Flannery O'Connor, and Don DeLillo. This London edition, published by the distinguished house of Secker & Warburg, stands as a testament to West's international literary stature. For those who have yet to encounter his work, a confrontation with the most unsettling corners of the American imagination awaits.
Author: Nathanael West
Format: Hardback
Published: 1957, Secker & Warburg
Genre: Anthology
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Wear and tear. Chipped along spine and folds. Significant damage around spine of jacket - missing part of bottom and top. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning. Markings: none. Binding condition: Binding intact.
Few American voices of the twentieth century cut as sharply or as darkly as Nathanael West's, and this definitive collection brings together all four of his novels under one cover. From the savage satire of Miss Lonelyhearts — in which a newspaper advice columnist drowns in the despair of his readers — to the Hollywood apocalypse of The Day of the Locust, West's fiction chronicles a America riddled with broken dreams, grotesque ambition, and the hollow promises of mass culture. The Dream Life of Balso Snell and A Cool Million round out the collection, the latter a blistering inversion of the Horatio Alger myth that presents the American Dream as a machinery of ruin. West's prose is lean, ferocious, and perpetually ahead of its time — a surrealist scalpel applied to the body of a society in crisis. His influence on American literature is immeasurable, with echoes traceable through Thomas Pynchon, Flannery O'Connor, and Don DeLillo. This London edition, published by the distinguished house of Secker & Warburg, stands as a testament to West's international literary stature. For those who have yet to encounter his work, a confrontation with the most unsettling corners of the American imagination awaits.