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unusual facts about The Day of the Locust


Western Union Boy

This image would later figure as a key symbol in West's final novel The Day of the Locust.


Bagnio

In The Day of the Locust (1939) by Nathanael West, Claude Estee's wife, Alice, says "Nothing like a good bagnio to set a fellow up."

The Dream Life of Balso Snell

After West became famous (years after his death) for Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust, Balso Snell was reprinted in a single volume edition of his complete novels, as well as in the Library of America edition of West's collected works.


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