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    <body><![CDATA[I'd never read any Nathanael West (who wrote primarily in the 1930s) so I tried Day of the Locust. Why did I choose that particular novel? Because one of the characters is named Homer Simpson, of course. (In fact, Matt Groening, creator of the TV show The Simpsons, named his cartoon father after the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38950109">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The novels of Nathaniel West revel in a moral fascination with the corrosive and corrupting influence of American decadence, as seen through the grotesque looking glass of mid-20th Century Los Angeles, that until the arrival of James Ellroy’s “L.A. Quartet” had few to equal their copasetic ble...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73212828">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Nathanael West is one of my favorite authors. Please read part of an article I wrote about him here: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-8359-Denver-Books-Examiner~y2009m8d9-Wests-Disease" title="http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-8359-Denver-Books-Examiner~y2009m8d9-Wests-Disease">http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-8359-...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is from the Wikipedia entry for &quot;The Dream Life of Balso Snell&quot;: &quot;a young man's immature and cynical search for meaning in a series of dreamlike encounters inside the entrails of the Trojan Horse.&quot;  Yeah, you read that right.  It mixes erotic and scatological references with...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72527783">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Miss Lonelyhearts &amp; the Day of the Locust by Nathanael West (1962)]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The Day of the Locust is just perfect. ]]></body>
    
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