John O'Hara

Stories (LOA #282)

John O'Hara, Charles McGrath

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The Library of America
13 September 2016

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories

Series: Library of America John O'Hara Edition

Library of America and editor Charles McGrath present a fresh selection of the compulsively readable stories of 20th-century American literature's greatest social observer

Writing with equal insight about New York City, Hollywood, andthe small-town Pennsylvania world where he grew up, JohnO'Hara cultivated an unsentimental and often unsparing realism,aiming, he said, ""to record the way people talked and thoughtand felt . . . with complete honesty."" Praised by contemporariesincluding Ernest Hemingway and Dorothy Parker, he wroteabout sex, drinking, and social class with a frankness ahead of itstime. The fiction he published in The New Yorker (more than anyother writer to this day) came to epitomize the kind of shortstory featured in that magazine, and his impeccable ear andskillful dialogue have influenced later writers such as RaymondCarver. Bringing together sixty stories written over fourdecades-the largest, most comprehensive collection of O'Hara'sstories ever published-former New York Times Book Revieweditor Charles McGrath presents a fresh and arresting newperspective on one of American literature's master storytellers.

LIBRARY OF AMERICAis an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

By: John O'Hara
Edited by: Charles McGrath
Imprint: The Library of America
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 1
Dimensions: Height: 208mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 572g
ISBN: 9781598534979
ISBN 10: 1598534971
Series: Library of America John O'Hara Edition
Pages: 880
Publication Date: 13 September 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Charles McGrath, editor, is a writer at large at TheNew York Times, and was formerly editor of TheNew York Times Book Review and deputy editor ofThe New Yorker.

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John O'Hara

Stories (LOA #282)

John O'Hara, Charles McGrath

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