Pal Joey by John O'hara

Pal Joey by John O'hara

For its 75th anniversary and Frank Sinatra's centennial: the Jazz Age masterpiece that inspired the iconic Sinatra film and the hit Broadway musical, and featuring the musical's libretto and lyrics
 
On the seedy side of Chicago nightlife in the 1930s, Joey Evans is a poor man's Bing Crosby--a big-talking, small-time nightclub crooner down on his luck but always on the make. In slangy, error-littered letters signed "Pal Joey," he recounts his exploits with brash nightclub managers, shady business partners, and every pretty girl ("mouse") he meets. Charismatic yet conniving, Pal Joey is a smooth operator whose bravado and big ideas disguise a far less self-assured soul, caught up in the rags-to-riches dream of the Jazz Age.

Originally serialized in The New Yorker and the inspiration for the 1940 Rodgers and Hart musical of the same name and the 1957 film starring Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, and Rita Hayworth, Pal Joey is the story of a true "heel," as complex and memorable as any antihero in American literature.

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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.

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ISBN 13	9780143107750
ISBN 10	0143107755
Title	Pal Joey
Author	John O'hara
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2016-01-12
Number of pages	208
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.