The New York Stories by John O'hara

The New York Stories by John O'hara

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 the city--the speakeasies and highballs, social climbers and cinema stars, mistresses and powerbrokers, unsparingly observed by a popular American master of realism. Spanning his four-decade career, these more than thirty refreshingly frank, sparely written stories are among John O'Hara's finest work, exploring the materialist aspirations and sexual exploits of flawed, prodigally human characters and showcasing the snappy dialogue, telling details and ironic narrative twists that made him the most-published short story writer in the history of the New Yorker.

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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	9780143107095
ISBN 10	0143107097
Title	The New York Stories
Author	John O'hara
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2013-08-27
Number of pages	400
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