The New York Stories

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<p><b>Superb... These thirty-two stories inhabit the Technicolor vernaculars of taxi drivers, barbers, paper pushers and society matrons... O'Hara was American fiction's greatest eavesdropper, recording the everyday speech and tone of all strata of mid-century society<i>Wall Street Journal</i></b></p><p>John O'Hara remains the great chronicler of American society, and nowhere are his powers more evident than in his portraits of New York's so-called Golden Age. Unsparingly observed, brilliantly cutting and always on the tragic edge of epiphany, the stories collected here are among OHaras finest work, and show why he still stands as the most-published short story writer in the history of the<i>New Yorke</i>r.</p>

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<b>John O'Hara</b>was born in Pennsylvania on 31 January 1905. His first novel,<i>Appointment in Samarra</i>(1934), won him instant acclaim, and he 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<i>New Yorker</i>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 From the Terrace. John O'Hara died on 11 April 1970.

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