John O'Hara

• Aug-2020
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Secrets emerge as a fearsome contagion in this long autobiographical story set in small-town Pennsylvania amid the influenza pandemic of 1918. "The Doctor's Son" concerns James "Jimmy" Malloy, a teenager on the uncertain edge of manhood, confronted b...

• Sep-2016
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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 ...

• Sep-2014
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Family life and marriage around 1915. ...

• Sep-2013
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Collected for the first time, the New York stories of John O'Hara, "among the greatest short story writers in English, or in any other language" (Brendan Gill, Here at The New Yorker) Collected for the first time, here are the New York stories of...

• Dec-2006
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On the sound stage and the casting couch, behind the facades of Spanish style mansions and inside studio trailers, at costumes and makeup, in posh nightclubs and in backrooms filled with cigar smoke, here are the ruthless producers, over-the-hill dir...

• Oct-1997
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A devastating account of the movie world's Golden Age, in all its phony power and glory. The famously sharp-edged social realism and always on-the-money dialogue of the late novelist John O'Hara (1905-1970) are brought to bear in a stinging saga o...

• Jun-1994
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The author sympathetically portrays the people--miners, shopkeepers, bartenders, collegians, and country club members--of the coal region of his hometown in five novels and more than fifty short stories...

• May-1986
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• Sep-1985
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Hope of Heaven by John O'Hara is a gripping exploration of ambition, love, and disillusionment set against the glittering backdrop of 1930s Hollywood. This novella follows the story of Jim Malloy, a journalist navigating the seductive but morally com...

• Mar-1983
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For its 75th anniversary and Frank Sinatra's centennial: the Jazz Age masterpiece that inspired the iconic Sinatra film and the hit Broadway musical, and featuring the musical's libretto and lyrics   On the seedy side of Chicago nightlife in the...

• Oct-1972
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• May-1966
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The bestselling novel that became an Oscar-winning film starring Elizabeth Taylor about New York's speakeasy generation A masterpiece of American fiction and a bestseller upon its publication in 1935, BUtterfield 8 lays bare with brash honesty t...

• Jun-1963
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First Edition. First Printing (STATED) Attractive Book. Tiny tears to DJ. Dated christmas inscription to friend on front end page. Christmas stamp dated 1963 glued a top price of DJ sleeve. . The boards are in Fine ++ condition. This is a very attrac...

• Oct-1962
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• Nov-1961
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Stated First Printing. A VG+ copy in a VG dust jacket. Small bumps to the book's outer corners. Mild dust soiling to the covers and tanning to the spine. The dust jacket has rubs to its outer corners and spine tips. Tanning to its spine and dust soil...

• Jun-1961
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• Aug-1956
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The best-loved book by the writer whom Fran Lebowitz compared to the author of The Great Gatsby, calling him "the real F. Scott Fitzgerald" One of the great novels of small-town American life, Appointment in Samarra is John O'Hara's crowning achievem...

• Nov-1955
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The National Book Award -- winning novel by the writer whom Fran Lebowitz called "the real F. Scott Fitzgerald"Joe Chapin led a storybook life. A successful small-town lawyer with a beautiful wife, two over-achieving children, and aspirations to be p...