Miss Lonelyhearts ; &, the day of the locust / Nathanael West ; introduction by Jonathan Lethem ; afterword by John Sanford.
"Miss Lonelyhearts -- compared by Flannery O'Connor to Faulkner's As I Lay Dying -- is about a newspaper reporter assigned to write the agony column, but, caught up in a vision of suffering, he seeks a way out (through art, sex, religion), only to be rebuffed at every turn by his cyni...
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