“He's an escapist. He wants to cultivate his interior garden.”
Nathanael West book Miss Lonelyhearts
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Quotes from bookMiss Lonelyhearts
Miss Lonelyhearts is Nathanael West's second novel. He began writing it early in 1930 and completed the manuscript in November of 1932. Published in 1933, it is an Expressionist black comedy set in New York City during the Great Depression.
“He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.”
Nathanael West book Miss Lonelyhearts
Source: Miss Lonelyhearts
