Author(s): West, Nathanael,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 20/02/2014,
Pagination: 112 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Daunt Books,
Published By: Daunt Books,
Book Classification: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781907970467

Description:

Day after day, ‘Miss Lonelyhearts’ sits in his office responding to letters from ‘Broken-hearted, Sick-of-it-all, and Desperate’, dispensing words of hope, inspiration, and other platitudes to get his readers through their tormented days.

But it’s all getting to be too much for Miss Lonelyhearts. Under the weight of his colleagues’ mockery and the endless gloom of his correspondence, Miss Lonelyhearts finds himself crippled with cynicism and dysfunction.

Set in New York City at the height of the Great Depression, Miss Lonelyhearts stands as one of the most intelligent and hilarious works of the 20th Century. Laced with dark humour, irony and razor-sharp insight, this novel is as hauntingly relevant today as it was nearly a hundred years ago.