These two dark stories, and the most notable works of the short career of Nathanael West, remain stunningly powerful pieces of fiction more than 75 years after their original publication.
Tod finds work on a film called prophetically The Burning of Los Angeles, and the dark comic tale ends in an apocalyptic mob riot outside a Hollywood premiere, as the system runs out of control..
Her protector is an old man named Homer Simpson.
Tod tries to seduce Faye Greener; she is seventeen.
Set in Hollywood during the Depression, the narrator, Tod Hackett, comes to California in the hope of a career as a painter for movie backdrops but soon joins the disenchanted second-rate actors, technicians, laborers and other characters living on the fringes of the movie industry.
Scott Fitzgerald\'s unfinished masterpiece The Last Tycoon (1941) among the best novels written about Hollywood.
Many critics consider it with F.
During his years in Hollywood West wrote The Day of the Locust , a study of the fragility of illusion.
These two dark stories, and the most notable works of the short career of Nathanael West, remain stunningly powerful pieces of fiction more than 75 years after their original publication
