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The fascination and lure of Hollywood during the Great Depression are explored in this unique and perceptive book. Wells concentrates on eight works: James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice, Horace McCoy's They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, John O'Hara's Hope of Heaven, Nathanael West's Day of the Locust, Budd Schulberg's What Makes Sammy Run?, Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely, and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon and The Pat Hobby Stories.
Dominating and unifying the fiction discussed is an overriding theme of dissolution, of falseness, of cynicism, Wells finds. His conclusion, which makes this book more than just another study of the fiction of the 1930s, is that the Hollywood-Southland region imposed these attitudes on the writers, whose fiction thus illustrates important and interesting literary uses of region.
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David Lomax
reviewed Tycoons and locusts; a regional look at Hollywood fiction of the 1930s on July 02, 2018
Tycoons and locusts
As with the predecessor, 'Tradition and Dream' is just a great piece of literary history. But it's better than the earlier history (which dealt with English fiction until about 1914) for a few reasons. First, there are more gems to be discovered here. Odds are, there aren't many really good books from the 19th century that are under the radar; but there might well be from the 20th. Second, it seems that the publishers at the NYRB press used this book to choose which books to bring back into print, which is both funny (since I wouldn't exactly call Walter Allen ahead of his time) and nice. You get a good summary of these lost minor classics.
Anyway, it's a quick read despite its length, and is a great way to get a first glimpse of early and mid twentieth century fiction from England and America.
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