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Angel Fiction

Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust

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  • 1933 first published
  • 186 pages
  • ★ 4.7 (3 ratings)
  • 30 editions
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Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust is a 1933 angel fiction novel by Nathanael West. The story is set in Los Angeles, Calif. and New York, N.Y.. Key subjects include advice columnists, motion picture industry and Open_syllabus_project.

Open Library readers give it an average of 4.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, and 9 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 30 editions.

It runs to roughly 186 pages — 3–4 hours of reading at an average pace.

About Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust

"Somehow or other I seem to have slipped in between all the 'schools,'" observed Nathanael West the year before his untimely death in 1940. "My books meet no needs except my own, their circulation is practically private and I'm lucky to be published." Yet today, West is widely recognized as a prophetic writer whose dark and comic vision of a society obsessed with mass-produced fantasies foretold much of what was to come in American life. Miss Lonelyhearts (1933), which West envisioned as "a novel in the form of a comic strip," tells of an advice-to-the-lovelorn columnist who becomes tragically embroiled in the desperate lives of his readers. The Day of the Locust (1939) is West's great dystopian Hollywood novel based on his experiences at the seedy fringes of the movie industry.
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Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Setting

Subjects

  • Advice columnists
  • Motion picture industry
  • Open_syllabus_project
  • Hollywood, Los angeles, calif.
  • American fiction, Fictional works by one author
  • New york, N.y.
  • Advice columnists--new york, State--new york
  • Motion picture industry--california--los angeles

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Who wrote Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust?

Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust was written by Nathanael West and first published in 1933.

What genre is Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust?

It is usually shelved as Angel Fiction.

How long is Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust?

The median edition has 186 pages, about 3–4 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust?

Readers who like it often enjoy Hollywood Kids, The Last Tycoon and Columbo The Glitter Murder.

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