# The Day of the Locust

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- Authors: [Nathanael West](https://www.bookquiver.com/nathanael-west)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4134-167-4
- Pages: 176
- Published: 2018-06-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'He began to wonder if he himself didn't suffer from the ingrained, morbid apathy he liked to draw in others' Tod Hackett is a brilliant young artist - and a man in danger of losing his heart. Brought to an LA studio as a set-designer, he is soon caught up in a fantasy world where the cult of celebrity rules. But when he becomes besotted by the beautiful Faye, an aspiring actress and occasional call-girl, his dream rapidly becomes a nightmare. For, with little in the way of looks and no money to buy her time, Tod's desperate passion can only lead to frustration, disillusionment and rage ... The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War.