Collected Stories of John O'Hara

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A collection of O'Hara'sfinest work, taken from eleven volumes \ of short stories and novellas spanning the period 1935-68 'O'Hara never lets us doubt that we're listening in on real voices. He even-handedly deals us a democratic gallery of types - a pool hall * owner or a movie actress, a switchboard operator or a stable hand, an under-secretary of state or a teenage whore - and his straightforward aesthetic consists of making them as lifelike as possible. An O'Hara story is as distinctive an artifact as an Edward Hopper painting' VILLAGE VOICE 'As this splendid collection demonstrates, O'Hara has more depth | and variety than a majority of critics have ever suspectcd. He is the - writer of some of the most indispensable short stories of the American language' BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE 'The stories here are set everywhere from Gibbsvillc to New York City to Hollywood. They involve the rich and the poor, the ' high-born and the low, the climbing and the sinking. They hit you hard, and... Tovább

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A collection of O'Hara'sfinest work, taken from eleven volumes \ of short stories and novellas spanning the period 1935-68 'O'Hara never lets us doubt that we're listening in on real voices. He even-handedly deals us a democratic gallery of types - a pool hall * owner or a movie actress, a switchboard operator or a stable hand, an under-secretary of state or a teenage whore - and his straightforward aesthetic consists of making them as lifelike as possible. An O'Hara story is as distinctive an artifact as an Edward Hopper painting' VILLAGE VOICE 'As this splendid collection demonstrates, O'Hara has more depth | and variety than a majority of critics have ever suspectcd. He is the - writer of some of the most indispensable short stories of the American language' BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE 'The stories here are set everywhere from Gibbsvillc to New York City to Hollywood. They involve the rich and the poor, the ' high-born and the low, the climbing and the sinking. They hit you hard, and they hit you soft. And the passage of time has hardly dated s them at all' NEW YORK TIMES ! 'What a splendid writer O'Hara was. What splendid reading he still is' GEORGE V. HIGGINS, NEWSDAY j 'The work of no other writer tells us so precisely, and with such a sense of communication, how people look and how they want to look, where they buy their clothes and where they wish they could buy their clothes, how they speak, and how they think they ought to speak' LIONEL TRILLING Vissza