- Author: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Date: 30 Aug 2016
- Publisher: Audible Studios on Brilliance
- Original Languages: English
- Format: CD-Audio
- ISBN10: 1531812678
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The year 1939 turned out to be golden for Hollywood -Gone With the Wind, The Wizard of Oz -and particularly lucky for the gifted but largely undiscovered novelist and screenwriter Nathanael West. When their car smashed into another during the waning days of 1940, Nathanael West (né Nathan Weinstein) and his pretty young wife, Eileen McKenney, were largely unknown to the public. At 37, West s four novels, with their pitchfork skewering of the American dream, hadn t sold especially well. Read Book Online Now Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney PDF Free The urblack humorist, West now enjoys the ultimate accolade, a Library of America edition. His wife, Eileen McKenney, is a distinct back number, albeit with a certain shaky immortality as a figure of enduring Manhattan folklore, the ingenue outlander come to the big city to escape the stifling hinterlands for an awfully big adventure. With the recent release of Marion Meade s Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney, the writings of Nathanael West are being rediscovered yet again. As Elizabeth Hardwick noted seven years ago: Biographical and critical studies appear, important reviews, if not in a flood, an impressive stream of When Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney married in April 1940, just six months after they met in Hollywood, it seemed the kind of improbable romance that could happen only in a screwball comedy. They died eight months later in a car crash caused his reckless driving - just the kind of nasty twisteroo that West employed to unsettling effect in his fiction. "Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney" shared a post. Four nights later, the play My Sister Eileen opened at New York City's Biltmore Theater, with Shirley Booth, Jo Ann Sayers, Richard Quine, and Morris Carnovsky; it would run for 864 performances. Although ignored in his lifetime, West's books, particularly Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locusts, eventually became American classics. Marion Meade, author of Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney, closes her book with what I think is a fitting eulogy: Dead before middle age, Nat left behind no children, no literary reputation of importance, no fine obituary in the New York Times ensuring immortality, no celebrity eulogies, just four short Free 2-day shipping on qualified orders over $35. Buy Lonelyhearts:The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney at Walmart.com Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney. Eileen McKenney, accidental muse and literary heroine, fled Cleveland in Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney Marion Meade starting at $0.99. 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[Marion Meade] - " A dazzling joint biography of Nathanael West and his wife, set against the world of New York writers and Hollywood screenwriters in the 1930s." -Inside jacket. In the meantime Ruth McKenney was making her way from Ohio to New York, where her sister, Eileen, soon followed. Ruth became a writer and a Communist; Eileen became a Communist, sort of. It is Meade s conceit to structure her book so that the lives and adventures of the McKenney sisters run parallel to West In his brief life Nathanael West wrote four darkly comic novels, two of them acclaimed masterpieces: Miss Lonelyhearts, a devastating portrait of a The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney, a dual Lonelyhearts Marion Meade, 9780151011490, available at Book Depository Lonelyhearts:The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney Eileen Mckenney - accidental muse, literary heroine - was the
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