WEST, Nathanael.

£2,500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Day of the Locust. First edition. Famously ending with a riot outside a Hollywood film premiere, the novel sees the protagonist, Tod Hackett, overtaken by a feverish vision of Los Angeles descending into anarchy and apocalypse.

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