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A review by robhughes
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
4.0
The blurb mentioned Fitzgerald and it's a fitting comparison to make, both authors are concerned with peeling back the shiny veneer of the American dream to reveal something altogether more squalid and desolate.
It struck me as a story about how mundane the human experience is; Hollywood is the exciting epicentre of celebrity and glamour, yet it is not a story about celebrity but the people who arrive in LA with aspirations and fanciful dreams and are doomed to remain insignificant in terms of their bizarrely imagined set of values. It is as much a tale for the instagram age as it was for the golden age of Hollywood.
Enjoyed it muchly.
It struck me as a story about how mundane the human experience is; Hollywood is the exciting epicentre of celebrity and glamour, yet it is not a story about celebrity but the people who arrive in LA with aspirations and fanciful dreams and are doomed to remain insignificant in terms of their bizarrely imagined set of values. It is as much a tale for the instagram age as it was for the golden age of Hollywood.
Enjoyed it muchly.