"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 by his reckless driving--just the kind of nasty 'twisteroo' that West employed to unsettling effect in his fiction."
Wendy Smith in the Los Angeles Times reviews Marion Meade's Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney.
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