An edition of The Dream Life of Balso Snell ; A Cool Million (1934)

A Cool Million and The Dream Life of Balso Snell

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Cover of: A Cool Million and The Dream Life of Balso Snell by Nathanael West, Nathanael West
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An edition of The Dream Life of Balso Snell ; A Cool Million (1934)

A Cool Million and The Dream Life of Balso Snell

Two Novels

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  • 2 Want to read

" Nathanael West was only thirty-seven when he died in 1940, but his depictions of the sometimes comic, sometimes horrifying aspects of the American scene rival those of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor. A Cool Million, written in 1934, is a satiric Horatio Alger story set in the midst of the Depression. The Dream Life of Balso Snell (1931) was described by one critic as "a fantasy about some rather scatological adventures of the hero in the innards of the Trojan horse."--Publisher's website.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language
English
Pages
180

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Subjects

American Satire, Fiction, Fiction, humorous, Satire, american, Satire, american--fiction, Ps3545.e8334 c66 2006, 813/.52, American fiction (fictional works by one author)

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Cover of: A Cool Million and The Dream Life of Balso Snell
A Cool Million and The Dream Life of Balso Snell: Two Novels
June 27, 2006, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Cover of: The Dream Life of Balso Snell [and] A Cool Million
The Dream Life of Balso Snell [and] A Cool Million
1985, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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"While walking in the tall grass that has sprung up around the city of Troy, Balso Snell came upon the famous wooden horse of the Greeks."

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Library of Congress
PS3545.E8334C66 2006, PS3545.E8334 C66 2006

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Open Library
OL7424644M
Internet Archive
coolmilliondream0000west
ISBN 10
0374530270
ISBN 13
9780374530273
LCCN
2006922061
OCLC/WorldCat
70253262
Library Thing
259266
Goodreads
138613

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While walking in the tall grass that has sprung up around the city of Troy, Balso Snell came upon the famous wooden horse of the Greeks.
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