by Nathanael West · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780374502928
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«A Cool Million and The Dream Life of Balso Snell» is the book that brings together two novels by Nathanael West, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in paperback.
This volume brings together two early works by West: 'A Cool Million' (1934), a satire of the American dream set during the Depression with a heroicomic style, and 'The Dream Life of Balso Snell' (1931), his first work, a surreal and scatological fantasy that takes place inside the Trojan horse.
The 1963 edition collects two of Nathanael West's four narratives; the other two are Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust.
For a general audience interested in classics of American literature and satirical fiction.
Nathanael West was an American writer and screenwriter. He is remembered for two darkly satirical novels: Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) and The Day of the Locust (1939), set respectively in the newspaper and Hollywood film industries.
