John O'Hara: Stories (LOA #282) (Library of America John O'Hara Edition)

O'Hara, John

ISBN 10: 1598534971 / ISBN 13: 9781598534979

Published by Library of America, 2016

About this Item

First printing. Book and slipcover are like new. Clean crisp pages and tight binding.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: John O'Hara: Stories (LOA #282) (Library of America John O'Hara Edition)
• Publisher: Library of America
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1598534971
• ISBN 13: 9781598534979
• Binding: Hardcover
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Dimensions: 2.794W x 13.208H x 20.828D centimeters 2.794 centimeters width by 13.208 centimeters height by 20.828 centimeters depth
• Weight: 590 grams

About this title

Synopsis

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 he published in The New Yorker (more than any other writer to this day) came to epitomize the kind of short story featured in that magazine, and his impeccable ear and skillful dialogue have influenced later writers such as Raymond Carver. Bringing together sixty stories written over four decades—the largest, most comprehensive collection of O’Hara’s stories ever published—former New York Times Book Review editor Charles McGrath presents a fresh and arresting new perspective on one of American literature’s master storytellers.

LIBRARY OF AMERICA is 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.

About the Author

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