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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. Nathaniel West's Hollywood is not the glamorous "home of the stars" but a seedy world of little people, some hopeful, some desparing, all twisted by their own desires - from the ironically romantic artist narrator to a macho movie cowboy, a middle-aged innocent from America's heartland, and the hard-as-nails call girl would-be-star whom they all lust after. An unforgettable portrayal of a world that mocks the real and rewards the sham, turns its back on love to plunge into empty sex, and breeds a savage violence that is its own undoing, this novel stands as a classic indictment of all that is most extravagant and uncontrolled in American life.
ISBN | 9781909399310 |
Categories | Classics and Literary, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction |
Author(s) | Nathanael West |
Publisher | Roads |
Pages | 189 |
Format | Paperback |
Dimensions | 18.9cm x 1.1cm x 13cm |
Weight | 0.44 kg |