An Artist Is His Own Fault: John O'Hara on Writers and Writing

by John O'Hara

Book Overview

This important gathering of previously uncollected and unpublished material enlarges the assessment of O'Hara as a craftsman and a conscious literary artist.

O'Hara's preoccupation with the craft of writing is superbly revealed in the series of lectures he gave on the Amer­ican novel at Rider College in Trenton, N.J. These hitherto unpublished lec­tures contain major critical statements about the techniques of fiction writing. O'Hara...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809307960
• ISBN13: 9780809307968
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.9" x 8.0"