The Day of the Locust (The New Classics Series)

E-209: New Directions. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1950. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. New Directions/Vail-Ballou Press, Inc, New York. 1950. 167 pgs. New Classics #29. DJ has shelf-wear (front panel of the DJ is separated from the spine, chip present to the rear panel of the DJ). Bound in green cloth boards with black titles present to the spine. Boards are lightly rubbed and worn. Previous owner's name present to front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid. During his years in Hollywood West wrote The Day of the Locust, a study of the fragility of illusion. Set in Hollywood during the Depression, the narrator, Tod Hackett, comes to California in the hope of a career as a painter for movie backdrops but soon joins the disenchanted second-rate actors, technicians, laborers and other characters living on the fringes of the movie industry. Tod tries to seduce Faye Greener; she is seventeen. Her protector is an old man named Homer Simpson. Tod finds work on a film called prophetically “The Burning of Los Angeles, ” and the dark comic tale ends in an apocalyptic mob riot outside a Hollywood premiere, as the system runs out of control. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .