The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West torrent

Category: Classic, Literature
Language: EnglishKeywords: Great Depression Hollywood
Written by Nathanael West
Read by Grover Gardner
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
Admired by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, and Dashiell Hammett, and hailed as one of the best 100 English-language novels by Time magazine, The Day of the Locust continues to influence American writers, artists, and culture.
No novel more perfectly captures the nuttier side of Hollywood. Here the lens is turned on its fringes: actors out of work, film extras with big dreams, and parents lining their children up for small roles. But it’s the bit actress Faye Greener who steals the spotlight with her wildly convoluted dreams of stardom: “I’m going to be a star some day - if I’m not I’ll commit suicide.”
December 24 2018
5 hrs and 21 mins


Admired by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, and Dashiell Hammett, and hailed as one of the best 100 English-language novels by Time magazine, The Day of the Locust continues to influence American writers, artists, and culture.

No novel more perfectly captures the nuttier side of Hollywood. Here the lens is turned on its fringes: actors out of work, film extras with big dreams, and parents lining their children up for small roles. But it’s the bit actress Faye Greener who steals the spotlight with her wildly convoluted dreams of stardom: “I’m going to be a star some day - if I’m not I’ll commit suicide.”

December 24 2018
5 hrs and 21 mins