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Set amid Manhattan's fast set in the early 1930s, "Butterfield 8" is the tale of an abrupt and destructive sexual affair between a respectably married society man and a wild and tragically corrupted young girl, that tears both their lives apart.
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"A man who knows exactly what he is writing about and has written it marvelously well" (Ernest Hemingway)
"O'Hara understood better than any other American writer how class can both reveal and shape character" (Fran Lebowitz)
"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)
"More than any other American novelist, O'Hara has both reflected his times and captured the unique individual for generations to come" (Los Angeles Times)
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"O'Hara understood better than any other American writer how class can both reveal and shape character" (Fran Lebowitz)
"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)
"More than any other American novelist, O'Hara has both reflected his times and captured the unique individual for generations to come" (Los Angeles Times)
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- ISBN 13 9783406570339
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