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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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The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West
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- Publicado en
- 1983
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- Título
- The Day of the Locust
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Nathanael West
- Editorial
- Signet Classics
- Publicado en
- 1983
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN10
- 0451523482
- ISBN13
- 9780451523488
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- Ficción, Tema histórico, Mujeres, Clásicos, EE.UU., Literatura americana, Siglo XX, Adaptada al cine, Sueños, Hollywood, Parodia
- Primera publicación
- 1939
- Título original
- The Day of the Locust
- Calificación
- 3,75 de 5
- Descripción
- 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.