An edition of Appointment in Samarra (1934)

Appointment in Samarra.

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Appointment in Samarra.
John O'Hara, John O'Hara
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An edition of Appointment in Samarra (1934)

Appointment in Samarra.

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O’Hara did for fictional Gibbsville, Pennsylvania what Faulkner did for Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi: surveyed its social life and drew its psychic outlines, but he did it in utterly worldly terms, without Faulkner’s taste for mythic inference or the basso profundo of his prose. Julian English is a man who squanders what fate gave him. He lives on the right side of the tracks, with a country club membership and a wife who loves him. His decline and fall, over the course of just 72 hours around Christmas, is a matter of too much spending, too much liquor, and a couple of reckless gestures. That his calamity is petty and preventable only makes it more powerful. In Faulkner, the tragedies all seem to be taking place on Olympus, even when they’re happening among the low-lifes. In O’Hara, they could be happening to you.

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Faber and Faber
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Cover of: Appointment in Samarra
Appointment in Samarra
Apr 30, 2013, Penguin Classics
paperback
Cover of: Appointment in Samarra
Appointment in Samarra
1998, G.K. Hall
in English
Cover of: Appointment in Samarra
Appointment in Samarra
1982, Vintage Books
in English - 1st Vintage Books ed.
Cover of: Appointment in Samarra.
Appointment in Samarra.
1959, Faber and Faber
in English

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