num_pages: 192
description: A Cool Million (1934) subtitled "The Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin", is a satiric Horatio Alger story set in the midst of the Depression and is written in a bracing, mock-heroic style that has lost none of its wit or power. The Dream Life of Balso Snell (1931), West's first work, was described by one delighted critic as "a fantasy about some rather scatalogical adventures of the hero in the innards of the Trojan Horse."
language: English
title: A Cool Million and The Dream Life of Balso Snell: Two Novels
titlecomplete: A Cool Million and 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