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The Day of the Locust
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1939
- Pages
- Pages 190
A young painter works Hollywood's fringes among failed actors and desperate dreamers chasing the fame the movies promised them, and paints a mural of the city burning that comes true when a crowd outside a premiere turns into a rioting mob.
They had come to California to die.
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