The Big Laugh: a Novel by John O'hara

The Big Laugh: a Novel by John O'hara

A devastating account of the movie world's Golden Age, in all its phony power and glory. The famously sharp-edged social realism and always on-the-money dialogue of the late novelist John O'Hara (1905-1970) are brought to bear in a stinging saga of ambition and fate, Hollywood style.

John O'Hara (1905-1970) was one of the most well-known American novelists of the twentieth century. Ernest Hemingway championed F. Scott Fitzgerald. He co-wrote seventeen novels with Dorothy Parker, including his first, Appointment in Samarra; BUtterfield 8, which was translated into a Broadway musical and a film starring Elizabeth Taylor; Pal Joey, which was adapted into a Broadway musical and a film starring Frank Sinatra; and Ten North Frederick, which won the National Book Award. He has published more pieces in The New Yorker than anyone else in the magazine's history. He was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, and spent much of his life in New York and Princeton, New Jersey.