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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN: 9780375719202
ISBN: 0375719202
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: July 08, 2003
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: July 08, 2003
Sales Rank: 32145
Studio: Vintage
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A twentieth-century classic, Appointment in Samarra is the first and most widely read book by the writer Fran Leibowitz called “the real F. Scott Fitzgerald.”
In December 1930, just before Christmas, the Gibbsville social circuit is electrified with parties and dances, where the music plays late into the night and the liquor flows freely. At the center of the social elite stand Julian and Caroline English—the envy of friends and strangers alike. But in one rash moment born inside a highball glass, Julian breaks with polite society and begins a rapid descent toward self-destruction. Appointment in Samarra brilliantly captures the personal politics and easy bitterness of small-town life. It is John O’Hara’s crowning achievement, and a lasting testament to the keen social intelligence of a major American novelist.
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This story examines the lives of the social elite in a small town in 1930. The characters are trapped in rigid spots, expected to mix with certain people and display certain behaviors. Within this social elite, childhoods and adolescences are woven into a snarled web of relationships.
Julian English's life should be perfectly happy. He is successful financially as well as socially, has a crowd of friends, is invited to all of the best parties, and has the perfect wife. In reality, ... Read More
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Trained in the low couture of daily print journalism, John O'Hara's minimalist style makes this novel about Pennsylvania's anthracite community seem most American, most blue collar, most "down to earth."
Reminiscent of a Fitzgerald protagonist, Julian English's engagements in destructive lifestyle habits make him lose reputation, prestige and his friends in the small city of Gibbsville - population approximately 30,000. And, like Fitzgerald - the cause of the demise is alcohol.
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O'Hara is a forgotten writer, in part because of his singular ability to alienate his peers. I read this because I had never read anything by him and because my father recommended O'Hara as one of the great short story writers of the century. This work, of course, is a novel, albeit a short one, and was O'Hara's first full length work. He was only 28 when he wrote it and finished it during the depths of the Great Depression.
The book is extraordinary for its stylistic excellence. O'Hara's ... Read More
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O'Hara introduces his main character and drives straight and hard to the story's conclusion. He writes peceptively about marital relations, and about how men and women think about sexual acts. I was really surprised at how directly and perceptively he writes about sex.
He is in complete control of this work from beginning to end, and it never for a moment sounds false or romantisized.
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John O'Hara's first novel detailing the lives of the wealthy and the sordid among the smart set of Gibbsville (a thinly disguised Pottsville, PA) made a sensation when it came out in the early years of the Depression, and, reading it now, it's very easy to see why. Although O'Hara writes about the same sorts of characters here that his contemporary Fitzgerald detailed, he avoids for the most part Fitzgerald's chivalric sentimentalism. As in his later BUTTERFIELD 8, one character among O'Hara's assortment of ... Read More
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