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The Day of the Locust
Nathanael West

Bantam Books, 1973

The most famous, brilliant, audacious novel ever written about that bizarre and erotic underside of america in the '30s-Hollywood! Author Hathanael West

After the Locusts: Letters from a Landscape of Faith

1 review
Denise M. Ackermann

David Philip, 2003

Suffering and Faith
Written in the form of letters to the people in her life closest to her, these essays blaze with the intensity of life deeply felt and faith forged in the crucible of base cruelty, soaring beauty and redemption that is South Africa. Having stripped away the usual academic lingo, this theologian, who describes herself as a cultural hybrid and a feminist, takes on such subjects as cultural and ...

After the Locusts: Restoring Ruined Dreams, Reclaiming Wasted Years

13 reviews
Jan Coleman

B&H Publishing Group, 2002

This book was too good to keep to myself!
Ever read a book that you couldn't stop talking about? After the Locusts is one of those books. Jan Coleman writes as if she's talking directly to you. She shares many stories from friends she's personally encouraged through ruined dreams, and gives you hope that you or someone you know will overcome those wasted years. This book would be great for a women's Bible study. Highlighting the ...

While the Locust Slept (Native Voices)

4 reviews
Peter Razor

Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2002

while the locust slept
Like Peter I lived and went through total hell from a matron while I was in the same orphanage. After reading Peters book while the locust slept,I relived the same anger, as Peter indured.This book should be a must read by anyone,who plans on going into the socialwork field and know that this is truly a non fiction tragedy which happened.This is a story that took place a long time ago,but could ...

Miss Lonelyhearts & the Day of the Locust

36 reviews
Nathanael West

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1969

"Every Man His Own Carver"
In both of these stunning novellas - one set in New York, the other in Los Angeles - Nathanael West shows us a world without a center, one in which the various characters are therefore free to pursue their own idiosyncratic notions of bliss. Conspicuously absent is any widely accepted code of manners which might have a tonic influence in shaping character and aspiration, or even at lowest ebb in ...

Day of the Locust

43 reviews
Nathanael West

Buccaneer Books, 1981

Wonderful trip through a lost world...
Carl Melcher Goes to Vietnam The fact that The Day of the Locust was published in 1939, would, I thought, make it a bit too dated or old-fashioned to enjoy. Happily, I was wrong. Nathanael West's novel is like a well-oiled and maintained Disney ride, guaranteed to educate, amuse and thrill. We climb in the car and enter a tunnel into a world that is, of course, gone forever. Truly an insider's ...

The Day of the Locust and the Dream Life of Balso Snell" (Penguin Modern Classics)
Nathanael West

Penguin Classics, 2000

A Bagful of Locusts and the Baboon Woman: Constructions of Gender, Change, and Continuity in Botswana
David N. Suggs

Wadsworth Publishing, 2001

Not since the publication of Lee's case study on the Dobe Ju/'Hoansi and Turnbull's case study on the Mbuti Pygmies, has there been such an interesting addition to the African cases of the Spindler Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology series. Set in the subSaharan Africa in a contemporary context, this ethnography represents over 12 years of field research that focuses on the popular twin themes of culture change and gender roles amongst the ...

White Poplar, Black Locust

2 reviews
Louise Wagenknecht

University of Nebraska Press, 2003

beautiful memior of gowning up in a company town
I thought this was a phoenominal book. Louise weaves this memior of her childhood in a company logging town integrating social insight with the logging haydays of the 1950's and 1960's. Well researched and poignant. My copy was devoured by fellow employees while I was on vacation...

Locusts, Locusts, Everywhere!
Julie T. Brenes

Trafford Publishing, 2007

Locusts,Locusts, Everywhere! is an entertaining as well as educational non-fiction book for young children, which draws the interest of children from pre-school age up to age 9, both through vivid, colorful and whimsical illustrations, and its smart use of poetry and musical knowledge. The story is based upon the author's own childhood experiences with one of nature's oddest insects, in the small town in which she spent her most formative ...

The Locusts Have No King

6 reviews
Dawn Powell

STEERFORTH PRESS, 1998

When a "Real" New Yorker Is Just a Provincial
This is a fine, funny satire of New York literary life, and of the thousands of "real New Yorkers" who arrive from their small town or boring suburb and don't write that great novel, or make it big in the theatre, but live the literary lifestyle and are, in fact, "pretentiously bohemian, loudly literary" - in fact, not very likable. You've met people like this, and thanks to the talent of Dawn ...

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