Nathanael West; Keir Dullea

ISBN 10: 0886901251 / 0-88690-125-1
ISBN 13: 9780886901257
Publisher: Audio Partners
Publication Date: 1990

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Review:

"It is a difficult piece of work to put one's finger on, for it scarcely falls into any of the kinds of light reading with which we are familiar. Its wit and satire are as bitter as Swift's; and its despair, on its unambitious level, as profound....The novel is ostensibly a piece of humorous fiction. But do not class it with the clever wisecracking little volumes that emerge seasonally from the presses to carry on the tradition of bald American exaggeration. It is ostensibly satiric. but its irony has roots to it. The wit is hard, brilliant and very funny. But the tragic letters seeking help and advice are human documents and well sustain the burden of the underlying meaning."

New York Times, 04/23/1933

Review:

"Mr. Dreiser would have made a tragedy out of this material; Mr. West, in making a satiric comedy out of it, has perhaps given a more adequate rendering of men whose warped lives do not offer any theme considerable enough for tragedy."

T. C. Wilson, Saturday Review, 05/13/1933