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Title	:	A Cool Million
Author	:	Nathanael West
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 142 pages
Published	:	June 1961 by Berkley Publishing Corporation (first published 1934)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Novels. Literature. American. Humor

A Cool Million

Nathanael West

Paperback | Pages: 142 pages

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In this book, Nathanael West, a great American satirist, nearly laughs the Horatio Alger myth to death. Like many an Alger, Lemuel Pitkin leaves his home on the farm to seek his fortune in the Big City. By the time he is through, he has been robbed, bilked, thrown in jail, has lost his teeth, his eye, a leg, his scalp, and has witnessed a remarkable number of rapes and political riots. Others in the cast: an ex-president of the United States (just released from jail); Lem's childhood sweetheart (now working in a Mott Street bordello); an oil-rich Indian; a Western desperado; and assorted agents and thugs of the Communists, Fascists and International Bankers. Through the story of Lemuel Pitkin, the four-square, All-American hero, and his sad fate at the hands of rabble-rousers and charlatans, West etched a classic parable of America in the chaotic Thirties.

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The angry brutality overwhelms the satirical humor.

West's third book comes between "Miss Lonelyhearts" and "The Day of the Locust" in his bibliography. It immediately follows "Lonelyhearts" and is the last West would be heard of for five years, having gone off to Hollywood to write for the pictures. "A Cool Million" exists in a middle area between his semi-realistic books (previously mentioned) and his purely surrealistic debut, "The Dream Life of Balso Snell." Snell, as I wrote before, jumps from tree limb to tree limb without looking back, the

No-one has ever viewed the American Dream with more cynicism, or more venom, than Nathanael West. His literary output was incredibly slender one short novel, The Day of the Locust, and three novellas but time has done nothing to diminish the power and the bitterness of his vision. Wests satire isnt subtle, but its undeniably effective. Published in 1934, this is a savage and bleak little book.

From the author of one of the most bitter pieces of American fiction, Day of the Locust, comes another surly-as-hell satire about the crock of shit that is the American dream. This time, I should point out, the satire is much, much more on the nose. If Day of the Locust was Scream, then A Cool Million is more like Scary Movie. Our "hero" tries and tries again, only to lose more and more body parts, each departing with the comic timing of a dying drummer in Spinal Tap. Meanwhile, there's a

The Horatio Alger narratives receive the thorough pissing-on that they deserve. The myths we tell ourselves have a nasty habit of enduring - proven by the fact that huge chunks of this novel are just as timely today: many will find the finale uncomfortably close to where we find ourselves in 2018. An incredibly vicious satire - depressing that West only wrote four novels before his untimely death, he's maybe the greatest literary what-if I've ever encountered.

I really like Nathanael West. He really is quite a bitter satirist, and a grim one at that. This book is quite grim, where almost nothing good ever happens. Very bleak... in a good way.

America as FarceIn the 1930s America still considered itself a young country with much to learn. By all appearances almost a century later the country has matured into itself, becoming more of what it already was. Unfortunately it hasnt learned much at all.Rubes, sharp businessmen, and thieves (as well as the odd paedophile or two) - these are the demographic categories in Wests farce of American life. These groups are governed by a combination of corrupt officials, brutal police, and a justice