The Day of the Locust and Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West Paperback Book 9780099573166

In The Day of the Locust a young artist Tod Hackett arrives in LA full of dreams When he meets Faye Greener an aspiring actress he is intoxicated and his desperate passion explodes into rage Miss Lonelyhearts is a decidedly offkilter darkly comic tale set in New York in the early 30s