Selected Stories - Softcover

O'Hara, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099528797 ISBN 13: 9780099528791

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2011

Synopsis

'This is fiction, but it has, for me, the clang of truth' John Updike

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY E. L. DOCTOROW

John O’Hara is widely credited with inventing the New Yorker short story, and remains the most-published short story writer in the history of the magazine. Selected from his vast collection of short fiction written over forty years, these refreshingly frank, sparely written stories show him at his best. Exposing a world of bartenders and 'b-girls', car washers and criminals, O'Hara dissects the subtleties that bind humans together and the pressures that separate them.

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Review:

"This is fiction, but it has, for me, the clang of truth" (John Updike)

"Better than anyone else, he told the truth about his time, the first half of the twentieth century. He was a professional. He wrote honestly and well" (John O’Hara on John O’Hara, inscribed on his gravestone)

"A man who knows exactly what he is writing about and has written it marvellously well" (Ernest Hemingway)

"A social realist obsessed with the peccadilloes of the upper class, but he was considered a daring writer in the Thirties and Forties, his best prose distinguished by its concision, clever dialect and sexual candor. He is credited with inventing the New Yorker short story" (Washington Post)

"A writer of dream-sharp tales, crisp yet dense" (Los Angeles Times)

Book Description:

'This is fiction, but it has, for me, the clang of truth' John Updike

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0099528797
• ISBN 13: 9780099528791
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240