John O'Hara: Stories (LOA #282)

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Main Details

Title John O'Hara: Stories (LOA #282)
Authors and Contributors      By (author) John O'Hara
Edited by Charles McGrath
SeriesLibrary of America John O'Hara Edition
Series part Volume No. 1
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:880
Dimensions(mm): Height 208,Width 132
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Short stories
ISBN/Barcode 9781598534979
ClassificationsDewey:FIC
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher The Library of America
Imprint The Library of America
Publication Date 13 September 2016
Publication Country United States

Description

Writing with equal insight about New York City, Hollywood, andthe small-town Pennsylvania world where he grew up, JohnO'Hara cultivated an unsentimental and often unsparing realism,aiming, he said, "to record the way people talked and thoughtand felt . . . with complete honesty." Praised by contemporariesincluding Ernest Hemingway and Dorothy Parker, he wroteabout sex, drinking, and social class with a frankness ahead of itstime. The fiction he published in The New Yorker (more than anyother writer to this day) came to epitomize the kind of shortstory featured in that magazine, and his impeccable ear andskillful dialogue have influenced later writers such as RaymondCarver. Bringing together sixty stories written over fourdecades-the largest, most comprehensive collection of O'Hara'sstories ever published-former New York Times Book Revieweditor Charles McGrath presents a fresh and arresting newperspective on one of American literature's master storytellers. LIBRARY OF AMERICAis an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

Author Biography

Charles McGrath, editor, is a writer at large at TheNew York Times, and was formerly editor of TheNew York Times Book Review and deputy editor ofThe New Yorker.