The Day of the Locust

Name: The Day of the Locust
Author: Nathanael West

by Nathanael West

Satiric novel depicting ruthless aspiration and violence in 1930s Hollywood

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Nathanael West

Nathanael West was a dark satirist of the Hollywood dream factory and Depression-era despair, killed in a car accident at thirty-seven. Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust are savage, compressed masterworks.

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Miss LonelyheartsNovella of newspaper advice columnist's psychological collapse amid urban despair
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