- Motion picture industry, Fiction, Fiction in English, American literature
Following the tale of Tod Hackett - a brilliant young artist who is brought to an LA studio as a set designer - 'The Day of the Locust' is an exposure of the sordid reality beneath the surface of Hollywood.
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Prestige, bleak, classical in form and grave.
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Nathanael West
- First published
- September 6, 1983
- Pages
- 167
- Publisher
- Diogenes Verlag, Seuil, BantamBooks
- Editions
- 60
- Language
- English, German, tur, French
- ISBN
- 9780451523488
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“Around quitting time, Tod Hackett heard a great din on the road outside his office.”
Nathan Wallenstein Weinstein was born in 1903 in New York City. He attended Brown University and from 1924 to 1931 he lived in Paris, where he wrote *The Dream Life of Balso Snell*. On his return to New York, he managed a residential hotel and was associate editor, with [William Carlos Williams](https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL219856A/William_Carlos_Williams), of the magazine *Contact*. *Miss Lonelyhearts* appeared in 1933, *A Cool Million* in 1934 and *The Day of the Locust* in 1939. He worked on film scripts in Hollywood for the last five years of his life. He and his wife were tragically killed in a car accident in 1940. *--Penguin Books* Photo *--Wikicommons*
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