Day of the Locust

"A dozen or so years ago in Hollywood the nearest thing we had to a salon (and also a saloon) was Stanley Rose's Book Shop, the back room of which was a hangout for writers, would-be-writers, had-been-writers...The boys in that particular back room came up with some pretty fair books and you could also say this for them: they knew a real one when they read him. They knew, for instance, even if the American reading public hadn't caught on yet, that the quiet, modest, awkward sort of fellow who was hanging around waiting to go duck hunting with Stanley Rose, this fellow West, had one of those special and unique talents that doesn't happen along every day or every decade."West, Nathanael is the author of 'Day of the Locust', published 1983 under ISBN 9780451523488 and ISBN 0451523482.