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Lonelyhearts : The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen Mckenney
by Meade, Marion
- Used
- Condition
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0151011494
- ISBN 13
- 9780151011490
- Seller
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About This Item
Houghton Mifflin. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Synopsis
NATHANAEL WEST—novelist, screenwriter, playwright, devoted outdoorsman—was one of the most gifted and original writers of his generation, a comic artist whose insight into the brutalities of modern life proved prophetic. He is famous for two masterpieces, Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) and The Day of the Locust (1939). Seventy years later, The Day of the Locust remains the most penetrating novel ever written about Hollywood. EILEEN MCKENNEY—accidental muse, literary heroine—was the inspiration for her sister Ruth’s humorous stories, My Sister Eileen , which led to stage, film, and television adaptations, including Leonard Bernstein’s 1953 musical Wonderful Town. She grew up in Cleveland and moved to Manhattan at 21 in search of romance and adventure. She and her sister lived in a basement apartment in the Village with a street-level window into which men frequently peered. Husband and wife were intimate with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, Katharine White, S.J. Perelman, Bennett Cerf, and many of the literary, theatrical, and movie notables of their era. With Lonelyhearts, biographer Marion Meade, whose Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin earned accolades from the Washington Post Book World ("Wonderful") to the San Francisco Chronicle ("Like looking at a photo album while listening to a witty insider reminisce about the images"), restores West and McKenney to their rightful places in the rich cultural tapestry of interwar America.
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- Bookseller
- Better World Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3130315-75
- Title
- Lonelyhearts : The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen Mckenney
- Author
- Meade, Marion
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Trade Cloth
- ISBN 10
- 0151011494
- ISBN 13
- 9780151011490
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Orlando, Florida, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- 2010-03-11
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