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He tried in The Day of the Locust (1939), with its more or less realistic story of Hollywood down and outs, but mostly he succeeded in placing a veneer of hard-boiled literary conventions over his manias about women and sex, which makes him seem just as crazy as in his other books, but less aware of it, therefore less entertaining.
Aside from Nathaniel West and The Day of the Locust , though, this is it, right?
The last of those novels, The Day of the Locust , was filmed in 1975, which makes it the most famous of his titles today.
By map inspection (refer to Figure 15) these areas of strong boundary overlap include the vicinities of Locust Valley (11560) and Mill Neck (11765); Bohemia (11716) and Islip Terrace (11752); and Mastic Beach (11951) and Shirley (11967).
(3) Names of trees, presumably to memorialize those that the developer has just caused to be chopped down: Maple, Birch, Walnut, Sycamore, Ash, Beech, Spruce and Locust Street/Roads/Avenue/Lane .