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Summary: Our Greatest Writer
Review: If John O'Hara isn't one of our greatest American writers, who is? O'Hara, along with writers like John Cheever and Irwin Shaw, chronicle the American suburban experience during the middle part of the twentieth century and we should not miss out on their observations. But what do you see when you go to Barnes & Noble or Borders? Racks and racks of ridiculous drivel hoisted on us by greedy publishers and other fast-buck artists. Mindless entertainment rules while O'Hara, Cheever, Shaw and their like are pushed off the book shelves and out of circulation. The tone and empathy of these Masters will forever provide an insight into our American experience that you won't get from the trash that we now seem to be preoccupied with. OK, OK, OK. I read some of this current trash, too, but I haven't forgotten the great American Triumvirate.... O'Hara, Cheever and Shaw!
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Summary: OK
Review: If you've read one John O'Hara short story, you've read them all. All characters are obsessed with their status in life, and if a man and a woman are alone together, you just have to wait until one will try to get the other in the sack. If you had a 95 year old grandmother in a scene with an 18 year old male high school student, you could almost expect that one would make a pass at the other. THE DOCTOR'S SON is the best O'Hara short story I've read. It is excellent. Read that one, enjoy it. But you need read no more, since everything in that story is in every other O'Hara story.
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Summary: A glance backward through time
Review: John O'Hara has been and remains one of the great secret treasures of 20th Century American literature. Period. Any reader who would comment "to read one story is to have read them all" would no doubt say the same of Faulkner, Hemingway or Fitzgerald.O'Hara captures not only the voice of rural Pennsylvania circa 1910, but indeed recreates an entire new world based on his experiences in this place and time. As one who has walked the streets of Pottsville, Shamokin and Tamaqua I can assure you that echoes of O'Hara's Gibbsville still resinate throughout the region. Discover O'Hara for yourself.
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