Dec 30, 2013 - Jul 5, 2019 -This edition, published by something calling itself 'Popular Classics Publishing Co.', is like a bound PDF or a bootleg DVD. Don't buy it. The formatting is terrible, The Day of the Locust book. Read 771 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. The Day of the Locust is a novel about Hollywood and its cor At the height of the Great Depression, aspiring artist Tod Hackett falls in love with Faye Greener, a beautiful starlet with big dreams. Through his work as a the Locust Author: Nathanael West THE DAY OF THE LOCUST For Laura I quitting time, Tod Hackett heard a great din on the road outside his office. The . Nathanael West's Hollywood is not the glamorous "home of the stars" but a seedy world of little people, some hopeful, some despairing, all twisted by their own Nathanael West is meanwhile shaping the whole of this. Just as Tod's major response to what he sees is his painting so. West's is the novel in which it appears. The Day of the Locust is a 1939 novel by American author Nathanael West set in Hollywood, California. The novel follows a young artist from the Yale School of The Day of the Locust (1939). Nathanael West. 1. Around quitting time, Tod Hackett heard a great din on the road outside his office. The groan of leather mingled