Stories / John O'Hara ; Charles McGrath, editor.
| Author/creator | O'Hara, John |
| Other author | McGrath, Charles. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Library of America ; Distributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Random House, c2016. |
| Description | xi, 860 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Uniform title | Short stories. Selections |
| Variant title | John O'Hara : stories |
| Series | Library of America ; 282 Library of America ; 282. ^A515081 |
| Abstract | 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, [this is] the largest, most comprehensive collection of O'Hara's stories ever published. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 833-836). |
| Genre/form | Short stories. |
| ISBN | 1598534971 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781598534979 hardcover |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PS3529 .H29 A6 2016 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |