The Day Of The Locust
"The Day of the Locust" is the celebrated 1939 novel about the Great Depression, set in Hollywood, California, its over-arching themes dealing with the alienation and desperation of a broad group of odd individuals who exist at the fringes of the Hollywood movie industry. In 1998, the Modern...
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"The Day of the Locust" is the celebrated 1939 novel about the Great Depression, set in Hollywood, California, its over-arching themes dealing with the alienation and desperation of a broad group of odd individuals who exist at the fringes of the Hollywood movie industry. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked The Day of the Locust #73 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Time magazine included the novel in its list of 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781105528392 (1105528391)
Publish date: February 9th 2012
Publisher: Lulu.com
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Humor,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
American,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Culture,
Film,
Modern Classics
bookshelves: autumn-2015, play-dramatisation, radio-4, north-americas, published-1939, us-california, sleazy, games-people-play, gangsters, art-forms, teh-demon-booze Recommended to Bettie☯ by: Isca Silurum Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from November 16 to 17, 2015 http://www.bbc.c...
New Review! THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West http://tinyurl.com/pk52eea It's a Hollywood story of the sharpest wit; it's timeless, it's unkind, and it's bitterly amusing. West's last book before his early death. hmmmm
This satire of Hollywood hangers-on and wannnabes (not celebrities) could be depressing because it's so ugly; but since my physical and spiritual life are both thankfully distant from Hollywood and its noxious culture, I read it with detachment (clinical detachment, perhaps), and found the novel not...
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