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Lonelyhearts - by Marion Meade (Paperback)

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  • Nathanael West was a comic artist whose insight into the brutalities and absurdities of modern life proved prophetic.
  • Author(s): Marion Meade
  • 432 Pages
  • Biography + Autobiography, Literary Figures

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About the Book



From the author of the acclaimed BOBBED HAIR AND BATHTUB GIN comes a joint biography of the author of The Day of the Locust and his wife, the Eileen of My Sister Eileen, set against the world of New York writers and Hollywood screenwriters in the 1930s.



Book Synopsis



Nathanael West was a comic artist whose insight into the brutalities and absurdities of modern life proved prophetic. He is famous for two masterpieces, Miss Lonelyhearts and the most penetrating novel ever written about Hollywood, The Day of the Locust. Eileen McKenney, accidental muse and literary heroine, fled Cleveland in search of romance and adventure, inspiring her sister's humorous stories, My Sister Eileen, which led to stage, film, and television adaptations.

Until their tragic deaths in 1940, husband and wife were intimate with many of the literary, theatrical, and movie notables of the era, and in this dual biography, they provide a one-of-a-kind lens into a world that continues to capture artists' imaginations. With trenchant insight and erudite charm, acclaimed biographer Marion Meade restores the star-crossed lovers to their rightful places in the rich cultural tapestry of interwar America and paints a lively tableau of one of the country's most engrossing eras.



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"A great marriage of scholarship and gossip." Minneapolis Star-Tribune

"Meade deftly choreographs these boldface names as they rush to and fro between Hollywood and New York, those antipodes of 1930s writers." Wall Street Journal

Set in the 1930s against the bright lights of New York and the klieg lights of Hollywood, a dazzling joint biography and lively snapshot of one of our most captivating eras

Nathanael West was a comic artist whose insight into the absurdities of modern life proved prophetic. Eileen McKenney, accidental literary heroine, was the inspiration for her sister Ruth s humorous bestseller, My Sister Eileen, which led to stage, film, and television adaptations, including Leonard Bernstein s 1953 musical Wonderful Town. Until their tragic deaths in 1940, West and McKenney were intimate with many of the notables of the era, and in this dual biography, they provide a one-of-a-kind lens into a world that continues to capture our imaginations. With trenchant insight and erudite charm, acclaimed biographer Marion Meade paints a dynamic tableau of interwar America and of two of its most charming actors.

"Meade s dual biography smartly plays one life against the other, maximizing the gradual tension that comes from watching two fireballs happily, and then disastrously, collide." Free Times (Columbia, SC)

MARION MEADE is the author of Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? and Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties. She has also written biographies of Woody Allen, Buster Keaton, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Madame Blavatsky, and Victoria Woodhull, as well as two novels about medieval France.

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Dimensions (Overall): 7.98 Inches (H) x 5.41 Inches (W) x 1.06 Inches (D)
Weight: .86 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 432
Genre: Biography + Autobiography
Sub-Genre: Literary Figures
Publisher: Mariner Books
Format: Paperback
Author: Marion Meade
Language: English
Street Date: March 10, 2011
TCIN: 85133641
UPC: 9780547386386
Item Number (DPCI): 247-55-9316
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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