'For all its excellence as a social panorama and a sketch of a marriage,it is as a picture of a man destroyed by drink and pride that Appointment in Samarra lives frighteningly in the mind'John UpdikeJulian English prides himself a member of his hometown's social elite,but from the moment he throws a cocktail in the face of a powerful business associate his life spirals out of control,taking his loving but troubled marriage with it. Following English's rapid decline and fall,Appointment in Samarra is a fast-paced and blackly comic portrait of 1930s America. O'Hara's debut novel introduced a prolific new voice to a generation and still stands as one of the great works of American fiction.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099518327Number of pages: 272Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
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Mr O'Hara's eyes and ears have been spared nothing,but he has kept in his heart a curious and bitter mercyO'Hara writes with swift realism,wisely avoids sentimentality
Dramatic...exciting...vivid and written at high speed...accurate and often penetrating
Better than anyone else,he told the truth about his time,the first half of the twentieth century. He was a professional. He wrote honestly and well
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