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This is an introduction to the work of Nathaniel West. Alistair Wisker draws on critical writings, biography and many other cultural sources. In so doing he creates a view of the work of this original writer whose violent world and particular kind of joking seem relevant today.

Writings of Nathanael West

Introduction - rooting for West; a writer by reading; the dream life of Balso Snell; Miss Lonelyhearts; a cool million; the day of the locust; conclusion - a world too much with us. Appendices: two early poems - "Rondeau" and "Death"; "Through the Hole in the Mundane Millstone"; "Some Notes on Violence"; "Some Notes on Miss L."; "Outline for a New Novel"; "Burn the Cities"; "Bird and Bottle"; the original final chapter of "The Day of the Locust"; "The Adventurer"; "Western Union Boy"; "Tibetan Night"; "Mrs Potts of Pottstown"; "The Impostor".