This single volume of Miss Lonelyhearts features its original Alvin Lustig jacket design, as well as a new introduction by Harold Bloom, who calls it my favorite work of modern American fiction.
"The work of Nathanael West, savagely, comically, tragically original, has come into its own," said novelist and screenwriter Budd Schulberg.
THE STORY: As described by Atkinson in the NY Times: A scornful feature editor of a newspaper picks an ambitious young reporter to conduct the advice of the lovelorn column.
Miss Lonelyhearts: A Cool Million Or the Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin
"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...
Schreiben Sie an Miss Lonelyhearts!« – Die Leserschaft des New Yorker Post-Dispatch macht regen Gebrauch von der Offerte, und die Briefe in der Redaktion stapeln sich höher und höher.
In 'Miss Lonelyhearts', a cynical hack takes on his newspaper's agony column and thinks of it as a joke, until he sees the letters of despair.
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Miss Lonelyhearts in the story refers to an unnamed male columnist who writes articles that his colleagues consider to be jokes.
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