A Cool Million and The Dream Life of Balso Snell: Two Novels by Nathanael West

A Cool Million and The Dream Life of Balso Snell: Two Novels

Nathanael West

192 pages first pub 1931 (editions)

fiction challenging funny reflective medium-paced
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A Cool Million (1934) subtitled "The Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin", is a satiric Horatio Alger story set in the midst of the Depression and is written in a bracing, mock-heroic style that has lost none of its wit or power. The Dream Life of Balso ...

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