The Day of the Locust and Miss Lonelyhearts

Nathanael West

"A sun-blazed Polaroid of its moment". (Jonathan Letham). In "The Day of the Locust" a young artist, Tod Hackett, arrives in LA full of dreams. But celebrity and artifice rule and he soon joins the ranks of the disenchanted that drift around the fringes of Hollywood. When he meets Faye Greener, an aspir...