by Nathanael West · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781500389758
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«A Cool Million» is the satirical novel by Nathanael West, published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform in paperback (116 pages, in English).
Lemuel Pitkin pursues the American dream and his path becomes a chain of abuses and humiliations. Nathanael West turns that journey into a fierce satire against naive optimism, public credulity and the unfulfilled promises of American society, with echoes of fascism and the Great Depression.
Work originally written in 1934, during the Great Depression; this paperback edition from CreateSpace was published in 2014.
Recommended for readers interested in social satire and American literature of the 1930s, with a critical look at the American dream.
Nathanael West was an American writer and screenwriter. He is remembered for two darkly satirical novels: Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) and The Day of the Locust (1939), set respectively in the newspaper and Hollywood film industries.
