At one point in this novel, one of its protagonist's friends decry female writers with three names like "Ella Wheeler Catheter" or "Ford Mary Rinehart", after which another friend suggests that "what they all needed was a good rape".
At one point in this novel, one of its protagonist's friends decry female writers with three names like "Ella Wheeler Catheter" or "Ford Mary Rinehart", after which another friend suggests that "what they all needed was a good rape". At one point its protagonist has a dream in which he, Steve Garvey, and Jud Hume fail to sacrifice a lamb. In another episode in this novel, Ned Gates and its protagonist hound an old man named George B. Simpson, pretending to be Havelock Ellis and Krafft-Ebbing. Its protagonist, who often visits (*) Delehanty's bar, briefly contemplates moving to a Connecticut farm with Betty. After seeing a vision of the Christ figure on his wall shining like a "bright fly", that protagonist is shot by the cripple Peter Doyle, with whose wife Faye he had been having an affair. For 10 points, identify this novel whose protagonist is tormented by the editor Shrike and who must answer letters from figures like "Desperate" and "Sick-of-it-all", a work of Nathanael West.
At one point in this novel, one of its protagonist's friends decry female writers with three names like "Ella Wheeler Catheter" or "Ford Mary Rinehart", after which another friend suggests that "what they all needed was a good rape".
{Miss Lonelyhearts}