A Memory Of Locustland | Francis X. Maier
Life is strange. Allow me to elaborate. The author Nathaniel West, a friend of William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and other luminaries of the word, died in a 1940 car crash when he blew through a California stop sign. He was 37. But before checking out, he wrote one of the great, if too often overlooked, classics of American literature: The story is simple. The novel’s hero, Tod Hackett, is a gifted young Yale graduate; a painter with a love for the Great Masters. While planning his own masterpiece, The Burning of Los Angeles, he ends up working as a set designer at a Hollywood studio...
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