The four novels gathered here constitute the complete longer works of one the most brilliant and original American writers. West's vision of American modernity is terrifyingly comical and diagnoses the tawdriness and meretriciousness of much of American popular culture. His greatest work, Miss Lonel[...]

A young artist, Tod Hackett, arrives in LA full of dreams. But celebrity and artifice rule and he soon joins the ranks of the disenchanted that drift around the fringes of Hollywood. When he meets Faye Greener, an aspiring actress, he is intoxicated and his desperate passion explodes into rage...[...]

Tod Hackett is a brilliant young artist - and a man in danger of losing his heart. Brought to an LA studio as a set-designer, he is soon caught up in a fantasy world where the cult of celebrity rules. But when he becomes besotted by the beautiful Faye, an aspiring actress and occasional call-girl, h[...]

Two short novels, one set in New York and the other in Hollywood, dramatically depict the extremes of the human condition and the destructive forces pervading modern American life[...]

Nathanael West (1903-1940) oli 1900-luvun amerikkalaiskirjailijoiden parhaimmistoa, mutta elinaikanaan hän ehti kirjoittaa ainoastaan neljä romaania. Vastaathan kirjeeseeni, Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) on tekijänsä tunnetuin teos, jonka moderni kerrontatekniikka viehättää tänäkin päivänä."U[...]