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. ‘Wildly funny, desperately sad, brutal and kind, furious and patient, there was no other like Nathanael West.’ – Dorothy Parker ‘In dark times, Miss Lonelyhearts shines the brightest light in the blackest places. For this reason West’s novel has never felt more alive than today.’ – The Daily Beast ‘A miniature comic epic.’ – Edmund Wilson ‘Rendered with scalpel-precision . . . Nathanael West’s masterpiece is a mercilessly unsympathetic novel on the theme of sympathy.’ – Jonathan Lethem