PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9781909399310
- Categories BX, BXOS, Classics and Literary, extraordinary, F LIT, Fic20, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Whateversary
- Author(s) Nathanael West
- Publisher Roads
- Pages 189
- Format Paperback
- Dimensions 13.0cm x 1.1cm x 18.9cm
- Weight 0.245 kg
product description
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.