The Day of the Locust

West, Nathanael

A heartless artificial Los Angeles – the dump behind the dream factory – where off-the-wall wannabes come to self destruct, their dreams of fame ending in disappointment and violence. West wrote his merciless cult classic from personal experience while working as a screenwriter in Hollywood. The commodification of beauty and romance, commercial forces, personal degradation – these things are recognisable in the Hollywood we know today.

Publisher: The Grey Walls Press. First English edition 1951
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: London

Offsetting to prelims, else very good in dustwrapper darkened on the spine and around the perimeter.

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