Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 07/07/2011
ISBN: 9780099528821
Length: 736 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 37mm x 129mm
Weight: 529g
RRP: £10.99
'O'Hara 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' The New York Times
When the beautiful, imperious and moneyed Grace Caldwell Tate wants something she goes after it, men included. Her affair scandalises Pennsylvania's elite and she must face the costs to her marriage and the man she really loves.
A bestseller on publication in 1949, A Rage to Live is a candid tale of idealists and libertines, tradesmen and crusaders, men of violence and goodwill, and women of fierce strength and tenderness.
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 07/07/2011
ISBN: 9780099528821
Length: 736 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 37mm x 129mm
Weight: 529g
RRP: £10.99
A man who knows exactly what he is writing about and has written it marvellously well
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
O'Hara understood better than any other American writer how class can both reveal and shape character
A fascinating character study by one of America's most underrated storytellers, but there are other rewards as well. O'Hara's dialogue is unerringly authentic and his narrative passages as graphic as a photograph
His ear for dialogue is legendary, and he evoked New York cabbies, Hollywood producers and cheap hoods like Pal Joey as easily as he did Park Avenue socialites... Few authors today write convincingly of matters involving public life and private morality - they tend to do one or the other. But O'Hara could intertwine them in a five-page sketch or an 800-page epic.