{"product_id":"a-cool-million-and-the-dream-life-of-balso-snell-two-novels-9780374530273","title":"A Cool Million and the Dream Life of Balso Snell: Two Novels","description":"\u003cp\u003eNathanael 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. \u003ci\u003eA Cool Million\u003c\/i\u003e, written in 1934, is a satiric Horatio Alger story set in the midst of the Depression. \u003ci\u003eThe Dream Life of Balso Snell \u003c\/i\u003e(1931) was described by one critic as \"a fantasy about some rather scatological adventures of the hero in the innards of the Trojan horse.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nathanael West\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/27\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374530273\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNathanael West \u003c\/b\u003e(1903-40) was also the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Day of the Locust.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40758302179443,"sku":"9.78037E+12","price":21.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_38aafc3d-c8eb-41f3-af67-b031dec8a5d7.jpg?v=1678887625","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/a-cool-million-and-the-dream-life-of-balso-snell-two-novels-9780374530273","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}