A Cool Million and The Dream Life of Balso Snell
Two Novels
By Nathanael West
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Paperback, 9780374530273, 192pp.)
Publication Date: June 27, 2006
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback
Categories: Short Stories (single author)
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Description
Nathanael West was only thirty-seven when he died in 1940, but his depictions of the sometimes comic, sometimes horrifying aspects of the American scene rival those of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor. A Cool Million, written in 1934, is a satiric Horatio Alger story set in the midst of the Depression. The Dream Life of Balso Snell (1931) was described by one critic as "a fantasy about some rather scatological adventures of the hero in the innards of the Trojan horse."
About the Author
Nathanael West (1903-40) was also the author of The Day of the Locust.
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