BUtterfield 8

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<p>'On this Sunday morning in May, this girl who was later to be the cause of a sensation in New York awoke much too early for her night before'... This particular morning Gloria finds herself alone in a stranger's apartment with nothing but a torn evening dress and her stockings and panties. When she takes a fur coat from the wardrobe to wear home, she sets in train a series of events that will lead to tragedy.</p><p>A bestseller on its first publication,<i>BUtterfield 8</i>is the glittering story of a 1930s glamour girl whose ill-starred entanglement with a respectable married man is set against a backdrop of Manhattan bars and bedrooms.</p>

Autorenportrait

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

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