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Imprint: Vintage Classics
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Published: 03/04/2008
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ISBN: 9780099518327
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Length: 272 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm
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Weight: 219g
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RRP: £9.99
'For all its excellence as a social panorama and a sketch of a marriage, it is as a picture of a man destroyed by drink and pride that Appointment in Samarra lives frighteningly in the mind' John Updike
Julian English prides himself a member of his hometown’s social elite, but from the moment he throws a cocktail in the face of a powerful business associate his life spirals out of control, taking his loving but troubled marriage with it.
Following English’s rapid decline and fall, Appointment in Samarra is a fast-paced and blackly comic portrait of 1930s America. O’Hara’s debut novel introduced a prolific new voice to a generation and still stands as one of the great works of American fiction.
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Imprint: Vintage Classics
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Published: 03/04/2008
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ISBN: 9780099518327
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Length: 272 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm
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Weight: 219g
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RRP: £9.99
Reviews
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Mr O'Hara's eyes and ears have been spared nothing, but he has kept in his heart a curious and bitter mercy
Dorothy Parker
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O'Hara writes with swift realism, wisely avoids sentimentality
Time Magazine
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Dramatic...exciting...vivid and written at high speed...accurate and often penetrating
The Nation
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Better than anyone else, he told the truth about his time, the first half of the twentieth century. He was a professional. He wrote honestly and well
John O’Hara on John O’Hara. He had this inscribed on his gravestone.
