John O'Hara: Stories (Loa #282)

by John O'Hara

Book Overview

Writing with equal insight about New York City, Hollywood, and the small-town Pennsylvania world where he grew up, John O'Hara cultivated an unsentimental and often unsparing realism, aiming, he said, "to record the way people talked and thought and felt . . . with complete honesty." Praised by contemporaries including Ernest Hemingway and Dorothy Parker, he wrote about sex, drinking, and social class with a frankness ahead of its time. The fiction...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1598534971
• ISBN13: 9781598534979
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Library of America
• Length: 880 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.0" x 8.1"