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The Day of the Locust

Nathanael West

Paperback | Pages: 208 pages

Rating: 3.76 | 19272 Users | 773 Reviews

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Title	:	The Day of the Locust
Author	:	Nathanael West
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Signet Classic Printing
Pages	:	Pages: 208 pages
Published	:	September 6th 1983 by Signet Classic (first published 1939)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Literature. Novels. American. 20th Century

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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. Nathanael West's Hollywood is not the glamorous "home of the stars" but a seedy world of little people, some hopeful, some despairing, all twisted by their 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.

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Original Title:	The Day of the Locust
ISBN:	0451523482 (ISBN13: 9780451523488)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Tod Hackett, Faye Greener, Homer Simpson, Abe Kusich
Setting:	United States of America Los Angeles, California(United States) Hollywood, California(United States)

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Far different than anything I could imagine, but brilliant nonetheless. Rather than a 'hollywood story', we get Hollywood as Babylon. It's apocalyptic, surreal, lurching from one grotesque scene to another; every thought of sex tainted by rape, every cheap thrill one breath away from violence. Strangely I'm reminded a little of JG Ballard's books of urban decay, like Concrete Island and High Rise. Dark, cynical, bitter, and horrifying, the book gives us a heavy caricature of this city I live in,

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06p56zjDescription: Tod is a young scene designer in 1930s Hollywood trying to earn an honest buck and still maintain his artistic integrity. He falls in love with Faye, an aspiring actress and gets sucked into the toxic periphery of Hollywood. A caustic satire on the flipside of the 1930s dream factory.

I had a hard time deciding to finish the book after the first mention of Tod Hackett's thoughts about the courage to rape a teenager but I forget. You're not supposed to like the characters in this story. Tod is the protagonist, the straight man in this black comedy. Tod is self-aware and slick but still a naive outsider, in many ways. Like the lost inhabitants in Los Angeles, he is not that different compared to his midwest foil, Homer Simpson. The highlights of this novel are in the parade of

Where else could they go but California, the land of sunshine and oranges?Once there, they discover that sunshine isnt enough.They realize that theyve been tricked and burn with resentment. Every day of their lives they read newspapers and went to the movies. Both fed them on lynchings, murder, sex crimes, explosions, wrecks, love nests, fires, miracles, revolutions, wars. The daily diet made sophisticates of them. The sun is a joke. Oranges cant titillate their jaded palates. Nothing can ever

The Day of The Locust has a dead horse in a Hollywood pool, a cock fight, a Mexican, a cowboy and plenty of other strange things, people and happenings. I loved the book.Why The Day of The Locust I wondered: an explanation found online (where else?) is that the locust refers to Tod, the main character.I've also read that : "..the fierce critique of Hollywood, and the mentality of the masses, depicts an America that is both sick with vanity, while also harboring a malignant sense of

This is where the world endsThis is where the world endsThis is where the world endsIn a poisoned meringue of L.A.'s winter.This book has amazing characters, incredible scenes, and breaks my heart with every page. It set the scene for every David Lynch movie grotesque and the soundtrack for every Pixies song your head can bend itself around. Also, the best cock fight scene in all of literature.

If Sunset Boulevard had a bastard child with Tom Waits' Blue Valentine and it went to Hollywood failed and died alone in a seedy hotel room from falling asleep while smoking a cigarette...it would be this book.