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| Edition: | Signet Classics (Paperback) |
| Author: | Nathanael West |
| Published: | September 1983 |
| Pages: | 208 |
| ISBN 10: | 0451523482 |
| New: | $3.50 (14) |
| Used: | $0.01 (101) |
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The Day of the Locust is a 1939 novel by American author Nathanael West, set in Hollywood, California during the Great Depression, depicting the alienation and desperation of a disparate group of individuals who exist at the fringes of the movie industry.
Time Magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.
Plot summary
The book follows a young man named Tod Hackett who thinks of himself as a painter and artist, but who works in Hollywood as a costume designer and back ground painter. He falls in love with Faye Greener, an aspiring starlet who lives nearby. Between his work in the studio and his introduction to Faye's friends, he is soon interacting with numerous Hollywood hangers-on, including a cowboy who lives in the hills above the studios and works as an extra in cowboy movies, his Mexican friend who keeps fighting cocks, and Homer Simpson, a hapless businessman whom Faye is taking advantage of. The book ends with a riot at a movie premiere.
