'Superb... These thirty-two stories inhabit the Technicolor vernaculars of taxi drivers,barbers,paper pushers and society matrons... O'Hara was American fiction's greatest eavesdropper,recording the everyday speech and tone of all strata of mid-century society'Wall Street JournalJohn O'Hara remains the great chronicler of American society,and nowhere are his powers more evident than in his portraits of New York's so-called Golden Age. Unsparingly observed,brilliantly cutting and always on the tragic edge of epiphany,the stories collected here are among O'Hara's finest work,and show why he still stands as the most-published short story writer in the history of the New Yorker.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9781784873738Number of pages: 400Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
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You can binge on O'Hara's collections in the way some people binge on Mad Men,and for some of the same reasonsAmong the greatest short story writers in English,or in any other languageO'Hara practices the classic form of the modern short story developed by Joyce and perfected by Hemingway... His coverage is worthy of a BalzacO'Hara occupies a unique position in our contemporary literature.... He is the only American writer to whom America presents itself as a social scene in the way it once presented itself to Henry James,or France to ProustSuperb... The 32 stories inhabit the Technicolor vernaculars of taxi drivers,barbers,paper pushers and society matrons... O'Hara was American fiction's greatest eavesdropper,recording the everyday speech and tone of all strata of midcentury society
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