Miss Lonelyhearts & a Cool Million: Or the Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin

by Nathanael West

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In these two modern fables Nathanael West presents a powerful indictment of the brutal, inhuman world of 1930s America. When, in MISS LONELYHEARTS, a cynical, hard-drinking hack takes on his newspaper's agony column he thinks of it as something of ajoke. But when the letters of despair come flooding in he realises that it is he who is the victim of the joke. Haunted by the human misery he encounters, his fragile hold on reality starts to slip away. In A COOL MILLION Lem Pitkin is the hapless young hero chasing the American dream of success and wealth, but instead discovering the very darkest corners of human life. Together these two fables present a powerful indictment of 1930s America.
  • ISBN10 014118468X
  • ISBN13 9780141184685
  • Publish Date 25 May 2000
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 4 January 2002
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
  • Imprint Penguin Classics
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 208
  • Language English