num_pages: 192
description: Nathanael West was only thirty-seven when he died in 1940, but his depictions of the sometimes comic, sometimes horrifying aspects of the American scene rival those of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor. A Cool Million , written in 1934, is a satiric Horatio Alger story set in the midst of the Depression. The Dream Life of Balso Snell (1931) was described by one critic as "a fantasy about some rather scatological adventures of the hero in the innards of the Trojan horse."
language: English
title: A Cool Million & The Dream Life of Balso Snell: Two Novels
titlecomplete: A Cool Million & The Dream Life of Balso Snell: Two Novels
genres: Classics, Anthologies, Fiction, Short Stories, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, Literary Fiction, American
ratings_count: 470
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux