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The Day of the Locust

Nathanael West
3.70/5 (20749 ratings)
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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 people, some hopeful, some despairing, all twisted by their 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.
Format:
Pages:
pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Signet Classic
Edition:
First Signet Classic Printing
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0451523482
ISBN13:
9780451523488
kindle Asin:
B0B1PZC6S8

The Day of the Locust

Nathanael West
3.70/5 (20749 ratings)
Read Download
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 people, some hopeful, some despairing, all twisted by their 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.
Format:
Pages:
pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Signet Classic
Edition:
First Signet Classic Printing
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0451523482
ISBN13:
9780451523488
kindle Asin:
B0B1PZC6S8

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