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A Rage to Live by John O'Hara
Category: Fiction
'O'Hara is the only American writer to whom America presents itself as a social scene in the way it once presented itself to Henry James, or France to Proust' The New York Times When the beautiful, imperious and moneyed Grace Caldwell Tate wants something she goes after it, men included. Her affair sca ...Show more
Appointment In Samarra by John O'HARA
Category: Classic Fiction
"Appointment in Samarra" is a fast-paced, blackly comic depiction of the rapid decline and fall of Julian English. English is part of the social elite of his 1930s American hometown but from the moment he impetuously throws a cocktail in the face of one of his powerful business associates his life begin ...Show more
Butterfield 8 by John O'Hara
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics
The bestselling novel that became an Oscar-winning film starring Elizabeth Taylor about New York's speakeasy generation A masterpiece of American fiction and a bestseller upon its publication in 1935, "BUtterfield 8 "lays bare with brash honesty the unspoken and often shocking truths that lurked beneat ...Show more
Butterfield 8 by John O'Hara; Jessica Hische (Illustrator)
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Drop Caps Ser.
From A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcovers--featuring cover art by Jessica HischeIt all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated letter ...Show more
Four Novels Of The 1930s (Appointment in Samarra / Butterfield 8 / Hope of Heaven / Pal Joey) by O'Hara John
Category: Fiction
In one volume, four novels by the real Fitzgerald - scintillating, sexually frank tales of the desperate pursuit of pleasure and status in Jazz Age America The early novels of John O'Hara, like those of Hemingway and Fitzgerald, dramatize the longings and dashed hopes of a lost generation, seduced and ...Show more
John O'Hara: Stories by John O'Hara
Category: Fiction | Series: Library of America (Hardcover)
The New York Poets : An Anthology by John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler
Category: Poetry | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
For the first time, "The New York Poets" gathers in a single volume the best work of four extraordinary poets: Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler. By the early 1950s all four were settled in Manhattan, collaborating, competing and encouraging each other's radical experiments wi ...Show more
The New York Stories by John O'Hara
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage O'Hara
'Superb... These thirty-two stories inhabit the Technicolor vernaculars of taxi drivers, barbers, paper pushers and society matrons... O'Hara was American fiction's greatest eavesdropper, recording the everyday speech and tone of all strata of mid-century society' Wall Street Journal John O'Hara remains ...Show more
The New York Stories by John O'Hara
Category: Classics
Collected for the first time, the New York stories of John O'Hara, "among the greatest short story writers in English, or in any other language" (Brendan Gill, Here at The New Yorker) Collected for the first time, here are the New York stories of one of the twentieth century's definitive chroniclers of ...Show more
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