Author:Nathanael West
In The Day of the Locust a young artist, Tod Hackett, arrives in LA full of dreams. But celebrity and artifice rule and he soon joins the ranks of the disenchanted that drift around the fringes of Hollywood. When he meets Faye Greener, an aspiring actress, he is intoxicated and his desperate passion explodes into rage...
Miss Lonelyhearts is a decidedly off-kilter, darkly comic tale set in New York in the early 30s. A nameless man is assigned to produce a newspaper advice column. It was meant to be a joke. But as endless letters from the Desperate, Sick-of-it-All and Disillusioned pile up for Miss Lonelyhearts's attention the joke begins to escape him...
As austerity ripples on in this century, the book's combination of escapism and relevance continues to draw me in. The language is so inventive, the characters so brilliantly (often absurdly) captured, and their behaviour so close to pantomime, that it renders the whole a garishly compelling and thought-provoking read
—— Elle-Violet Bramley , GuardianBlack-as-pitch Hollywood farce
—— The GuardianThe Day of the Locust has scenes of extraordinary power. Especially I was impressed by the pathological crowd at the premiere, the character and handling of the aspirant actress and the uncanny medieval feeling of some of his Hollywood background set off by those vividly drawn grotesques
—— F. Scott FitzgeraldA talented and somewhat neglected author... wonderfully imaginative and slightly disturbed
—— Daily TelegraphIt certainly packs a wallop
—— John Dos PassosThese novels say more about the way we live now- and the things that brought us to our present pass - than any other work of fiction I can think of
—— L.E. Sissman , New YorkerWhat this novel does is so magnificent. One could say that this book has the power to unite us
—— TVA Television – Canada[Serdar Ozkan] is already being mentioned together with Paulo Coelho, Richard Bach, and even Saint-Exupery.
—— Corriere della Sera, Italy
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