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Literature & Fiction

John O'Hara

Contemporary

Hutchinson

"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 begins to spiral out of control - taking his loving but troubled marriage with it.

Appointment in Samarra (Vintage Classics)

Vintage Books USA

'On this Sunday morning in May, this girl who was later to be the cause of a sensation in New York awoke much too early for her night before' This particular morning Gloria finds herself alone in a stranger's apartment with nothing but a torn evening dress and her stockings and underwear. When she takes a fur coat from the wardrobe to wear home, she sets in train a series of events that will lead to tragedy. A bestseller on its first publication, BUtterfield 8 is the glittering story of a 1930s glamour girl whose ill-starred entanglement with a respectable married man is set against a backdrop of Manhattan bars and bedrooms.

Butterfield 8

Classics

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY E. L. DOCTOROW John O'Hara is widely credited with inventing the New Yorker short story, and remains the most-published short story writer in the history of the magazine. Selected from his vast collection of short fiction written over forty years, these refreshingly frank, sparely written stories show him at his best. Exposing a world of bartenders and 'b-girls', car washers and criminals, O'Hara dissects the subtleties that bind humans together and the pressures that separate them.

Selected Stories

Vintage Classic

When the beautiful, imperious and moneyed Grace Caldwell Tate wants something she goes after it. Her affair scandalises Pennsylvania's elite and she must face the costs to her marriage and the man she really loves. A bestseller on publication in 1949, "A Rage to Live", is a candid tale of idealists and libertines, tradesmen and crusaders, men of violence and goodwill, and women of fierce strength and tenderness.

Rage to Live

Hat On The Bed, The: 24 New Stories

The Cresset Press

Pal Joey

Arts & Photography

Music

Barrie Jenkins

Collected Stories

Pan Books

O'Hara, John; Ed. Matthew J. Bru, Selected Letters Of John O'Hara

Selected letters of John O'Hara

Random House]

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