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Title: Selected Short Stories of John O'Hara by John O'Hara, Louis Begley ISBN: 0-8129-6697-X Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 11 March, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Prodigious Writer of Short Stories
Comment: John O'Hara was a prodigious writer of short stories. In THE NEW YORKER and other magazines he had more than four hundred stories published. In addition eleven volumes of his short stories were issued during his lifetime.
O'Hara never attended college because of the untimely death of his father but he remained forever interested in the minutia associated with university life. One story which reflected his obsession with the latter subject was "Graven Image."
Some of my other personal favorites in this volume are "Too Young" and "The Next-To-Last Dance of the Season." Another story entitled "The Doctor's Son" is very autobiographical and is influenced by O'Hara's experiences during the influenza epidemic at the end of World War I.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Great Short Story Writer
Comment: John O'Hara is one of the leading twentieth century American writers of manners and morals. In SELECTED SHORT STORIES OF JOHN O'HARA the author gives a good sampling of his skills in this art. One example is "Walter T. Carriman" in which O'Hara describes the life of a man who lived most of his life in Philadelphia. There are thirty-one other short stories in this collection such as "Too Young" and "Graven Image." A short biography is also included in addition to an introduction by Louis Begley.
It is important to appreciate O'Hara's upbringing as an Irish-Catholic outsider in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. The similarities with John P. Marquand's experiences as a poor cousin living with wealthier relatives in Massachusetts are striking. Marquand is best remembered for his books about upper class New Englanders while O'Hara's strength is writing about middle and upper class people in Pennsylvania, Los Angeles, New York City and Long Island.
Rating: 5
Summary: Neglected Master of the Short Story
Comment: These are absolute gems, and whenever I see someone reading John Cheever or Raymond Carver I tell them to put those overrated hacks away and to check out John O'Hara.
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Title: Appointment in Samarra : A Novel by John O'Hara ISBN: 0375719202 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 08 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: BUtterfield 8 by John O'Hara, Fran Lebowitz ISBN: 0812966988 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Art of Burning Bridges : A Life of John O'Hara by GEOFFREY WOLFF ISBN: 0679427716 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: From the Terrace: A Novel by John O'Hara, Budd Schulberg ISBN: 0786706821 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Novellas of John O'Hara by John O'Hara ISBN: 0679601678 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 22 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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