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Tod Hackett is a brilliant young artist - and a man in danger of losing his heart. Brought to an LA studio as a set-designer, he is soon caught up in a fantasy world where the cult of celebrity rules. But when he becomes besotted by the beautiful Faye, an aspiring actress and occasional call-girl, his dream rapidly becomes a nightmare. For, with little in the way of looks and no money to buy her time, Tod's desperate passion can only lead to frustration, disillusionment and rage...
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A round quitting time, Tod Hackett heard a great din on the road outside his office. Read the first page
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Hollywood's Plague,
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This review is from: Day of the Locust and The Dream Life of Balso (Paperback)
Virtually ignored during his lifetime, West became a cult figure after his early death in 1940. It's hard to say where his reputation lies now, though he still shows up on Best 100 Novels lists. F. Scott Fitzgerald considered himself a fan. Locust, the last of four short novels, is considered West's most mature work. Think Fitzgerald writing Barton Fink or the Cohen Brothers directing The Last Tycoon and you'll come close to understanding West's vision. It has a surprisingly contemporary feel, with a truly cynical wink at life in Hollywood that didn't come into vogue for decades (back then it was all about covering up scandals, not using them for literary fodder.) There's no moral core to West's world, hardly even a center at all, populated as it is by hucksters and star-struck dreamers who amount to little more than a plague of locusts. At first glance it seems a far cry from Fitzgerald's moral and romantic, if ultimately tragic, universe, but it's actually its inverse. If you took the characters from the party scenes in The Great Gatsby and made the doomed, trashy Myrtle Wilson a romantic focus (with Nick Carraway and George Wilson as rival protagonists), you'd have something like this bleakly comic novel by Nathanael West.Jeffrey Round
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