The Day of the Locust
4h 5m
48,930 words
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The Day of the Locust (1939) is West's savage, surrealist vision of Hollywood's margins. Tod Hackett, a set designer with artistic ambitions, becomes obsessed with Faye Greener, an aspiring actress indifferent to his devotion. Around them swirl the has-beens, never-weres, and retirees who came to California to die — people whose boredom and disappointment will ignite into a terrifying riot. One of the most powerful indictments of the American Dream ever written.
