The New York Stories

John O'Hara (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

400 Seiten

2018
Vintage Classics (Verlag)
978-1-78487-373-8 (ISBN)

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‘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 Journal

John 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.

John O'Hara was born in Pennsylvania on 31 January 1905. His first novel, Appointment in Samarra (1934), won him instant acclaim, and he quickly came to be regarded as one of the most prominent writers in America. He won the National Book Award for his novel Ten North Frederick and had more stories published in the New Yorker than anyone in the history of the magazine. His fourteen novels include A Rage to Live, Pal Joey, BUtterfield 8 and From the Terrace. John O'Hara died on 11 April 1970.

Erscheinungsdatum	21.06.2018
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	130 x 198 mm
Gewicht	283 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
ISBN-10	1-78487-373-X / 178487373X
ISBN-13	978-1-78487-373-8 / 9781784873738
Zustand	Neuware