The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West

The Day of the Locust

Nathanael West with Alfred Kazin

208 pages first pub 1939 (editions)

fiction classics funny lighthearted slow-paced
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The Day of the Locust is a novel about Hollywood and its corrupting touch, about the American dream turned into a sun-drenched California nightmare. Nathanael West's Hollywood is not the glamorous "home of the stars" but a seedy world of little pe...

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