1997, ISBN: 1883011280

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[EAN: 9781883011284], New book, [SC: 33.04], [PU: Library of America, New York], LITERATURE: UNITED STATES: THE NOVEL & SHORT STORY: LIBRARY OF AMERICA: WEST, NATHANAEL: NATHANAEL WEST: N… Plus…

[EAN: 9781883011284], New book, [SC: 33.04], [PU: Library of America, New York], LITERATURE: UNITED STATES: THE NOVEL & SHORT STORY: LIBRARY OF AMERICA: WEST, NATHANAEL: NATHANAEL WEST: NOVELS AND OTHER WRITINGS: DREAM LIFE BALSO SNELL, MISS LONELYHEARTS, A COOL MILLION, DAY LOCUST, LETTERS: SACVAN BERCOVITCH SELECTED CONTENTS WROTE NOTES FOR THIS VOLUME: AMERICA NO. 93, AUTHORITATIVE: BRILLIANT: ORIGINAL: NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1998) First Printing, NEW cream laminate-paper-over-boards slip-case w/ double rule-borders & LOA-logo gilt-stamped on front panel, NEW silk-finish sand-tan Brillianta linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE distinctive white-on-tan LOA-patterned card-stock end-papers, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & w/ tan-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps & silk tan page-marker ribbon, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB unblemished acid-free Ecusta Nyalite archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.50", 0.70 kg, 829 pp. Slip-case: 5.36" x 8.50" x 1.62", 0.80 kg * CONTENTS: The Dream Life of Balso Snell (1), Miss Lonelyhearts (55), A Cool Million (127), The Day of the Locust (239), Other Writings (393), Unpublished Writings & Fragments (411), Letters (769); Chronology (803), Note on the Texts (813), Notes (820) * ABOUT THE BOOK: In this volume LOA offers the most complete literary portrait ever published of Nathanael West. Along w/ the 4 novels for which he is famous, this authoritative collection gathers his work in other genres, including stories, poetry, essays & plays, film scripts & treatments, & letters. When West died in a California highway accident in 1940 at the age of 37, his originality & brilliance were little known outside an intensely admiring circle of fellow writers: William Carlos Williams, Edmund Wilson, S. J. Perelman, & others. Not until West's 4 novels were reissued in the late 1950s was he acknowledged as one of the most gifted writers of his generation. His masterpieces "Miss Lonelyhearts" & "The Day of the Locust", w/ their blending of manic farce & despairing compassion, & their vision of an America awash in its own mass-produced fantasies, read like a prophecy of much that was to come in American literature & life. Each of West's novels is distinct in style & theme. In the Dada-inspired "The Dream Life of Balso Snell" (1931), he freely mixes high-flown literary & religious allusions w/ erotic & scatological humor. "Miss Lonelyhearts" (1933) presents, in a series of grotesque, starkly etched episodes, the spiritual breakdown of a newspaper columnist overwhelmed by his readers' suffering. By contrast, "A Cool Million" (1934) reduces the eternal optimism of Horatio Alger's novels to a brutal, cartoonish farce. In his last work, "The Day of the Locust" (1939), West renders w/ hallucinatory precision the reverse side of the Hollywood dream, as he choreographs a cast of failures, has-beens, & deluded glamour-seekers in what becomes an apocalyptic dance of death. Also included is a generous sampling of West's other surviving work, ranging from freewheeling improvisations & grotesque comic tales to more mainstream work written w/ Hollywood or Broadway in mind, & including his anti-war satire "Good Hunting" & his adaptation of Francis Ile's famous crime novel "Before the Fact". The uncollected West shows him as a writer who embodied the contradictions & crazy-quilt exuberance of American culture, & raises the question of how he might have developed had his career not been cut short. Selected correspondence w/ William Carlos Williams, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Malcolm Cowley, Bennett Cerf, & others rounds out the volume & sets West's literary life in fuller context. * ABOUT THE EDITOR: SACVAN BERCOVITCH (1933–2014) was the 2007 recipient of the Bode-Pearson Prize for Lifetime Achievement in American Studies, author of "The Puritan Origins of the American Self", & editor of the multi-volume Cambridge History of American Literature. * THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republ, Books<

1997, ISBN: 1883011280

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[EAN: 9781883011284], Neubuch, [PU: Library of America, New York], LITERATURE: UNITED STATES: THE NOVEL & SHORT STORY: LIBRARY OF AMERICA: WEST, NATHANAEL: NATHANAEL WEST: NOVELS AND OTHE… Plus…

[EAN: 9781883011284], Neubuch, [PU: Library of America, New York], LITERATURE: UNITED STATES: THE NOVEL & SHORT STORY: LIBRARY OF AMERICA: WEST, NATHANAEL: NATHANAEL WEST: NOVELS AND OTHER WRITINGS: DREAM LIFE BALSO SNELL, MISS LONELYHEARTS, A COOL MILLION, DAY LOCUST, LETTERS: SACVAN BERCOVITCH SELECTED CONTENTS WROTE NOTES FOR THIS VOLUME: AMERICA NO. 93, AUTHORITATIVE: BRILLIANT: ORIGINAL: NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1998) First Printing, NEW cream laminate-paper-over-boards slip-case w/ double rule-borders & LOA-logo gilt-stamped on front panel, NEW silk-finish sand-tan Brillianta linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE distinctive white-on-tan LOA-patterned card-stock end-papers, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & w/ tan-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps & silk tan page-marker ribbon, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB unblemished acid-free Ecusta Nyalite archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.50", 0.70 kg, 829 pp. Slip-case: 5.36" x 8.50" x 1.62", 0.80 kg * CONTENTS: The Dream Life of Balso Snell (1), Miss Lonelyhearts (55), A Cool Million (127), The Day of the Locust (239), Other Writings (393), Unpublished Writings & Fragments (411), Letters (769); Chronology (803), Note on the Texts (813), Notes (820) * ABOUT THE BOOK: In this volume LOA offers the most complete literary portrait ever published of Nathanael West. Along w/ the 4 novels for which he is famous, this authoritative collection gathers his work in other genres, including stories, poetry, essays & plays, film scripts & treatments, & letters. When West died in a California highway accident in 1940 at the age of 37, his originality & brilliance were little known outside an intensely admiring circle of fellow writers: William Carlos Williams, Edmund Wilson, S. J. Perelman, & others. Not until West's 4 novels were reissued in the late 1950s was he acknowledged as one of the most gifted writers of his generation. His masterpieces "Miss Lonelyhearts" & "The Day of the Locust", w/ their blending of manic farce & despairing compassion, & their vision of an America awash in its own mass-produced fantasies, read like a prophecy of much that was to come in American literature & life. Each of West's novels is distinct in style & theme. In the Dada-inspired "The Dream Life of Balso Snell" (1931), he freely mixes high-flown literary & religious allusions w/ erotic & scatological humor. "Miss Lonelyhearts" (1933) presents, in a series of grotesque, starkly etched episodes, the spiritual breakdown of a newspaper columnist overwhelmed by his readers' suffering. By contrast, "A Cool Million" (1934) reduces the eternal optimism of Horatio Alger's novels to a brutal, cartoonish farce. In his last work, "The Day of the Locust" (1939), West renders w/ hallucinatory precision the reverse side of the Hollywood dream, as he choreographs a cast of failures, has-beens, & deluded glamour-seekers in what becomes an apocalyptic dance of death. Also included is a generous sampling of West's other surviving work, ranging from freewheeling improvisations & grotesque comic tales to more mainstream work written w/ Hollywood or Broadway in mind, & including his anti-war satire "Good Hunting" & his adaptation of Francis Ile's famous crime novel "Before the Fact". The uncollected West shows him as a writer who embodied the contradictions & crazy-quilt exuberance of American culture, & raises the question of how he might have developed had his career not been cut short. Selected correspondence w/ William Carlos Williams, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Malcolm Cowley, Bennett Cerf, & others rounds out the volume & sets West's literary life in fuller context. * ABOUT THE EDITOR: SACVAN BERCOVITCH (1933–2014) was the 2007 recipient of the Bode-Pearson Prize for Lifetime Achievement in American Studies, author of "The Puritan Origins of the American Self", & editor of the multi-volume Cambridge History of American Literature. * THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republ, Books<

ISBN: 9781883011284

Library of America offers the most complete collection ever published of Nathanael West's writings. Along with the four novels for which he is famous, this authoritative collection gather… Plus…

Library of America offers the most complete collection ever published of Nathanael West's writings. Along with the four novels for which he is famous, this authoritative collection gathers stories, poetry, essays and plays, film scripts and treatments, and letters.In the Dada-inspired The Dream Life of Balso Snell (1931), he freely mixes high-flown literary and religious allusions with erotic and scatological humor. Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) presents, in a series of grotesque, starkly etched episodes, the spiritual breakdown of a newspaper columnist overwhelmed by his readers’ suffering. By contrast, A Cool Million (1934) reduces the eternal optimism of Horatio Alger’s novels to a brutal, cartoonish farce. In his last work, The Day of the Locust (1939), West renders with hallucinatory precision the reverse side of the Hollywood dream, as he choreographs a cast of failures, has-beens, and deluded glamour-seekers in what becomes an apocalyptic dance of death.Also included is a generous sampling of West’s other surviving work, ranging from freewheeling improvisations and grotesque comic tales to more mainstream work written with Hollywood or Broadway in mind, and including his anti-war satire Good Hunting and his adaptation of Francis Ile’s famous crime novel Before the Fact. The uncollected West shows him as a writer who embodied the contradictions and crazy-quilt exuberance of American culture—and raises the question of how he might have developed had his career not been cut short. Selected correspondence with William Carlos Williams, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Malcolm Cowley, Bennett Cerf, and others rounds out the volume and sets West’s literary life in fuller context.LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries. Trade Books>Hardcover>Classics>Coll Classics>Coll Classics, Library of America Core >2<