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The Day of the Locust
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The great Hollywood novel is now available as a stand-alone New Directions edition
Admired by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, and Dashiell Hammett, and hailed as one of the “Best 100 English-language novels” by Time magazine, The Day of the Locust continues to influence American writers, artists, and culture. Bob Dylan wrote the classic song “Day of the Locusts” in homage and Matt Groening’s Homer Simpson is named after one of its characters. No novel more perfectly captures the nuttier side of Hollywood. Here the lens is turned on its fringes — actors out of work, film extras with big dreams, and parents lining their children up for small roles. But it’s the bit actress Faye Greener who steals the spotlight with her wildly convoluted dreams of stardom: “I’m going to be a star some day—if I’m not I’ll commit suicide.”Download the free Fable app
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electricwilson
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“Holy shit!
I am surprised that this has such poor reviews. Yes, it is brutal, violent, grotesque, and uncomfortable to read, and i completely understand that is not everyone's cup of tea. Some things happen in this that some readers just never want to read about, and i would never disparage anyone who has boundaries in that regard. But it is beautiful and insightful sentence to sentence, and for all the contempt with which the narrative occasionally treats its characters, i think the reader is given a way out. We are offered an important choice on the last page, confronted with hundreds of people who are either tearing each other apart or being torn, and i think that there is a secret third option for those who care to look.”
Sisi
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“What’s up with all the violence? The last 50 pages took this book from 3 stars to 2. I feel weird.”
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About Nathanael West
In 1940, when an automobile accident prematurely claimed Nathanael West's life, he was a relatively obscure writer, the author of only four short novels. West's reputation has grown considerably since then and he is now considered one of the 20th century's major authors. Born in New York, West worked as the night manager of the Kenmore Hotel on East 23rd Street in Manhattan, as a contract scriptwriter for Columbia Pictures in Hollywood, and as a screenwriter for RKO Radio Picture.
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