The Day of the Locust (New Directions Paperbook) - Softcover

West, Nathanael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811224619 ISBN 13: 9780811224611

Verlag: NEW DIRECTIONS, 2015

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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.

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Admired by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, and Dashiell Hammett, and hailed as one of the “Best 100 English-language novels” by Time magazine, The Day of the Locust continues to influence American writers, artists, and culture. Bob Dylan wrote the classic song “Day of the Locusts” in homage and Matt Groening’s Homer Simpson is named after one of its characters. No novel more perfectly captures the nuttier side of Hollywood. Here the lens is turned on its fringes — actors out of work, film extras with big dreams, and parents lining their children up for small roles. But it’s the bit actress Faye Greener who steals the spotlight with her wildly convoluted dreams of stardom: “I’m going to be a star some day—if I’m not I’ll commit suicide.”

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• Verlag: NEW DIRECTIONS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0811224619
• ISBN 13: 9780811224611
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160