About this title: West's final book, THE DAY OF THE LOCUST, focuses on the fringes of Hollywood. Tod Hackett, late of Yale, designs sets for movies. Poor, awaiting inspiration for a great painting, he frequents the underbelly of California life, meeting various frustrated characters: a shy bookkeeper from Iowa, a smart-aleck child actress, a raging dwarf, and an ingenue.
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Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Time-Life Books
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780809438419ISBN:0809438410
Description: Very Good. Pages tight and clean. All books have issued dustcovers unless otherwise noted. Pictures always available upon request. All books wrapped in bubble wrap and shipped in a cardboard container. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Time Reading, New York
Date Published: 1965
Description: Cover Art. Good. Trade Paperback. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. The cover has light shelf wear with a chip on the back..........................We are very careful when we list our books, but sometimes something minor may get by.. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Time
Date Published: 1965
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. This is a trade paperback book, Great reading condition, edge wear, spine crease, dog-eared, pages clean to read, tan tone, very small edge of upper corner is spliced off. read more
Edition: 1st Edition-1st Printing
Binding: Paper
Publisher: Signet Classic, N. Y.
Date Published: 1983
Description: Cover Art. Good. No Jacket. Vintage Paperback. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. The cover has a crease to the top corners....Some of the firs page has a faint moisture stain around the edges......Light yellowing to the pages......................The book may have minor flaws that may have gone unnoticed.... read more
Edition: First Bantam Printing
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam, New York
Date Published: 1953
Description: Good. Mass Market Used vintage pulp mass market edition of the hollywood classic; mm, 142pp. (wear and creasing to wraps, soiling and stains to edges; internal browning; mark to endpapers) a good reading copy. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books, New York
Date Published: 1959
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. (032906) Mass market paperback is in Very Good+ condition with crease at spine edge, very light overll wear. [140] p.; 18 cm. A Bantam book "Special movie edition. " read more
Edition: 10th printing
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books, New York
Date Published: 1975
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. (091206) Mass Market Paperback is in VG+/Fine condition with shadow crease in spine, slight spine slant, very light overall wear. [140] p.; 18 cm. A Bantam book T6401.. "Special movie edition. " read more
"a brilliant, burning novel about hollywood as a place of broken dreams, living, breathing nightmares and constant, absurd revision of history. the place of our collective fantasies seethes with passions of the crowd, asphyxiating children, smashing innocence to bloody pulps on a trampled sidewalk. all in the shadow of the hill where aspiring stars jump to their deaths, forgotten suicides, dying with cliches screaming from their cracked lips, smeared with whale fat."
"Meet the original Homer Simpson. I loved the early LA setting -- brings back memories of climbing the hills of Boyle Heights in the '50s to visit an aging uncle living in a bleak SRO hotel where we sat on the edge of the bed and chatted (there was a porcelain convenience under there, I remember). This story is a little disturbing, but highly recommended. I also read a few of West's letters, especially to Scott Fitzgerald ... I see a lot of similarity."
"I love the movie also but these two compliment each other really well. It's a short story so the movie is able to really flesh it out and give it depth, the main difference is in the climax which is more visually chaoticic where in the book it is more psychological."
"l.a. book, nat west skewers the shallowness and silliness of movie industry, and the superficialiticality of l.a. in general. how all l.a. is like a movie set. i forget the details but i think something depressing happens.
i love nathaniel west always because no matter how much i try to force myself to be good, think good thoughts and be more calm and intelligent, i always fall back on base humour and sarcastic exaggerations of everything i find ridiculous, which is everything. fitting the bill, nat west stories never fail to be sarcastic and funny."
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