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˝The Day of the Locust was first published in 1939, a year before West was killed in a motor accident and six years after the publication of Miss Lonelyhearts, now regarded as his best novel.
His last book is set in Hollywood, whither young Tod Hackett from Yale is attracted as an artist. A surface of high comedy seems to cover the doings of his unsuccessful friends in the city of dream-production: but a thin curtain keeps blowing aside to reveal, with unforgettable flashes of clarity, scenes of violence, despair, and mob hysteria. West, in this short novel, crossed some of the urbanity of Scott Fitzgerald with the toughness of Hemingway: as a result he put the guts of America during the depression on show beneath a cellophane wrapping.
The Dream Life of Balso Snell, published in 1931, was his first novel. It was written in Paris when he was in his early twenties.˝
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