num_pages: 160
description: The Day of the Locust is a novel about Hollywood and its corrupting touch, about the American dream turned into a sun-drenched California nightmare. Nathaniel West's Hollywood is not the glamorous "home of the stars" but a seedy world of little people, some hopeful, some desparing, all twisted by their own desires - from the ironically romantic artist narrator to a macho movie cowboy, a middle-aged innocent from America's heartland, and the hard-as-nails call girl would-be-star whom they all lust after. An unforgettable portrayal of a world that mocks the real and rewards the sham, turns its back on love to plunge into empty sex, and breeds a savage violence that is its own undoing, this novel stands as a classic indictment of all that is most extravagant and uncontrolled in American life.
language: English
title: The Day of the Locust
titlecomplete: The Day of the Locust
characters: Faye Greener, Tod Hackett, Homer Simpson, Abe Kusich
genres: American, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, The United States Of America, Film, Classics, Novels, Fiction, Literature, 20th Century
ratings_count: 22163
places: Hollywood, California, Los Angeles, California, California, The United States of America
publisher: Bantam Books