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The Day of the Locust is a 1939 novel by American author Nathanael West, set in Hollywood, California during the Great Depression, its overarching themes deal with the alienation and desperation of a broad group of odd individuals who exist at the fringes of the Hollywood movie industry. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked The Day of the Locust #73 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Time magazine included the novel in its list of 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005, and noted critic Harold Bloom included it in his list of canonical works in the book The Western Canon.

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Nathanael West's humor is of course not at the expense of the victim. It is a horselaugh at a world that is too ugly and bitter to be dealt with in any other way. --This quote refers to an alternative paperback edition
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Novelist and scriptwriter Nathanael West is often compared to his close friend F. Scott Fitzgerald, but the dark humour and muscularity of his work offers something distinct to modern readers, exploring as it does the artice and the dark reality of the human experience in the face of innite promise also know as the American Dream

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  • PublisherBenediction Classics
  • Publication date2010
  • ISBN 10 184902667X
  • ISBN 13 9781849026673
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages168
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