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The Day of the Locust
| Full title: | The Day of the Locust |
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| ISBN: | 9781849026673 |
| ISBN 10: | 184902667X |
| Authors: | West, Nathanael |
| Publisher: | Benediction Classics |
| Num. pages: | 168 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Language: | en |
| Published on: | 2010 |
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Synopsis
The Day of the Locust focuses on the unglamorous side of Hollywood in the 1930's. Nathanael West worked in Hollywood from 1933 to his death in 1940 in a car accident, and his classic novel concentrates on a motley group of individuals who were marginalized in the entertainment capitial. The novel reflects West's cynicism of Hollywood, in which luck, and not talent, had more to do with success.