A Rage to Live - Softcover

O'Hara, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099528827 ISBN 13: 9780099528821

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2011

Synopsis

'O'Hara is the only American writer to whom America presents itself as a social scene in the way it once presented itself to Henry James, or France to Proust' The New York Times

When the beautiful, imperious and moneyed Grace Caldwell Tate wants something she goes after it, men included. Her affair scandalises Pennsylvania's elite and she must face the costs to her marriage and the man she really loves.

A bestseller on publication in 1949, A Rage to Live is a candid tale of idealists and libertines, tradesmen and crusaders, men of violence and goodwill, and women of fierce strength and tenderness.

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Review:

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

"O'Hara occupies a unique position...He is the only American writer to whom America presents itself as a social scene in the way it once presented itself to Henry James, or France to Proust" (Lionel Trilling New York Times)

"O'Hara understood better than any other American writer how class can both reveal and shape character" (Fran Lebowitz)

"A fascinating character study by one of America's most underrated storytellers, but there are other rewards as well. O'Hara's dialogue is unerringly authentic and his narrative passages as graphic as a photograph" (Los Angeles Times)

"His ear for dialogue is legendary, and he evoked New York cabbies, Hollywood producers and cheap hoods like Pal Joey as easily as he did Park Avenue socialites... Few authors today write convincingly of matters involving public life and private morality - they tend to do one or the other. But O'Hara could intertwine them in a five-page sketch or an 800-page epic." (Washington Post)

Book Description:

'O'Hara is the only American writer to whom America presents itself as a social scene in the way it once presented itself to Henry James, or France to Proust' The New York Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0099528827
• ISBN 13: 9780099528821
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 736