The Day of the Locust

First UK edition. Sm. 8vo. 207pp. Publisher's navy blue cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. In a printed, slate-blue dustwrapper, priced '9s. 6d. net' to front flap.

A superb copy.

Author's great dystopian Hollywood novel based on his experiences at the seedy fringes of the movie industry. Ranked #73 by the Modern Library in 1998, on its list of 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Hailed as one of the Best 100 English-language novels from 1923 to 2005 by TIME magazine and featured in Harold Bloom's list of canonical works in The Western Canon. Bob Dylan wrote Day of the Locusts in homage and Matt Groening's Homer Simpson is named after one of its characters. Source for the underrated 1975 film, based on a screenplay by Waldo Salt, and directed by John Schlesinger, which starred Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith, William Atherton, Geraldine Page, et al.