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Collected Stories of John O'Hara

By: John O'Hara,Frank MacShane

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Collected Stories of John O'Hara

By: John O'Hara,Frank MacShane

A collection of short stories reveals the diversity, insight, and verismilitude of O'Hara's work as he wrote about Pennsylvania, Hollywood, and New York cafe society

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414

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Vintage

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ISBN 10

0394743113

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9780394743110

Hope of Heaven

By: John O’Hara

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Hope of Heaven, first published in 1938, is a fast-paced novel by John O’Hara in the “doomed romance” genre. The novel centers on a world-weary Hollywood screenwriter of only limited success in his mid-thirties who is in love with an idealistic young woman in her twenties who is only mildly interested in him. When her father, a private detective, comes to Los Angeles on a case in which the screenwriter has a part, tragedy ensues. John O’Hara (1905-1970) was the author of many novels and short stories and is best known for his first two novels – Appointment in Samarra and Butterfield 8.

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163

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1789129478

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9781789129472

Selected Short Stories of John O'Hara

By: John O'Hara

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Selected Short Stories of John O'Hara

By: John O'Hara

“John O’Hara’s fiction,” wrote Lionel Trilling, “is preeminent for its social verisimilitude.” Made famous by his bestselling novels, including BUtterfield 8 and Appointment in Samarra, O’Hara (1905–1970) also wrote some of the finest short fiction of the twentieth century. First published by the Modern Library in 1956, Selected Short Stories of John O’Hara displays the author’s skills as a keen social observer, a refreshingly frank storyteller, and a writer with a brilliant ear for dialogue. “The stories in this volume,” writes Louis Begley in his new Introduction, “show the wide range of [O’Hara’s] interests and an ability to treat with a virtuoso’s ease characters and situations from any place on America’s geographic and social spectrum.” From the Trade Paperback edition.

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258

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Modern Library

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0307431800

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9780307431806

Appointment in Samarra

(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

By: John O'Hara

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Appointment in Samarra

(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

By: John O'Hara

The best-loved book by the writer whom Fran Lebowitz compared to the author of The Great Gatsby, calling him “the real F. Scott Fitzgerald” One of the great novels of small-town American life, Appointment in Samarra is John O’Hara’s crowning achievement. In December 1930, just before Christmas, the Gibbsville, Pennsylvania, social circuit is electrified with parties and dances. At the center of the social elite stand Julian and Caroline English. But in one rash moment born inside a highball glass, Julian breaks with polite society and begins a rapid descent toward self-destruction. Brimming with wealth and privilege, jealousy and infidelity, O’Hara’s iconic first novel is an unflinching look at the dark side of the American dream—and a lasting testament to the keen social intelligence if a major American writer.

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241

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Penguin

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ISBN 10

1101602953

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9781101602959

The New York Stories

By: John O'Hara

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The New York Stories

By: John O'Hara

Collected for the first time, the New York stories of John O'Hara, "among the greatest short story writers in English, or in any other language" (Brendan Gill, Here at The New Yorker) Collected for the first time, here are the New York stories of one of the twentieth century’s definitive chroniclers of the city—the speakeasies and highballs, social climbers and cinema stars, mistresses and powerbrokers, unsparingly observed by a popular American master of realism. Spanning his four-decade career, these more than thirty refreshingly frank, sparely written stories are among John O’Hara’s finest work, exploring the materialist aspirations and sexual exploits of flawed, prodigally human characters and showcasing the snappy dialogue, telling details and ironic narrative twists that made him the most-published short story writer in the history of the New Yorker. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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402

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Penguin

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0143107097

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9780143107095

America's Military Adversaries

From Colonial Times to the Present

By: John C. Fredriksen

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America's Military Adversaries

From Colonial Times to the Present

By: John C. Fredriksen

This work chronicles the lives and accomplishments of over 200 enemies who have fought, plotted, spied on, and in some instances defeated U.S. forces over the past three centuries. Books on American military heroes abound. But this book is the first to focus on America's talented enemies—the generals, admirals, Indian chiefs and warriors, submarine captains, fighter pilots, and spies who opposed the United States with military force or other means. Often these military leaders were among the best minds of their times. For more than two centuries, the new nation's most constant military opponents were the Native Americans, led by such capable chiefs as American Horse and Little Wolf. Under D'Iberville, Canada's French colonialists became formidable foes, but they were soon surpassed by the rigorously disciplined redcoats of Great Britain under Howe and Cornwallis. Ironically, the most effective enemies in the history of the United States were not the leaders of foreign military forces—like Mexico's Santa Anna, Japan's Yamamoto, or Vietnam's Vo Nguyen Giap. They arose from among its own citizens during the Civil War, the bloodiest conflict in American history.

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636

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1576076040

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9781576076040

Affect, Psychoanalysis, and American Poetry

This Feeling of Exaltation

By: John Steen

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Affect, Psychoanalysis, and American Poetry

This Feeling of Exaltation

By: John Steen

Poetry has often been defined by its closure, its condensation of meaning and value into discrete, self-referential textual objects. Affect, Psychoanalysis and American Poetry challenges the dominant metaphor of poetic containers by turning to recent poetic texts that represent the contagious and uncontainable feelings of anxiety, grief, shame, and rage. From modernists Wallace Stevens to mid-century poets Randall Jarrell, Robert Creeley and Ted Berrigan, and finally to contemporary practitioners Aaron Kunin and Claudia Rankine, John Steen argues that new poetic techniques arise from the poetic productivity of negative affects, and that a new model of poetic value can be found in poems that are-instead of containers-permeable, social spaces of intimacy, attachment, and withdrawal. Drawing from object relations, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and affect theory, Affect, Psychoanalysis, and American Poetry finds poetry's singularity in its unique capacity to represent anew the transmissible, relational, and uncontainable valences of feeling that structure and destabilize social life.

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226

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350021539

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9781350021532

Illustrations, Historical and Genealogical, of King James's Irish Army List, 1689

Vol. II

By: John d'Alton

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Illustrations, Historical and Genealogical, of King James's Irish Army List, 1689

Vol. II

By: John d'Alton

Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.

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814

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3375064136

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9783375064136

Book's by John O Hara

Collected Stories of John O'Hara

Collected Stories of John O'Hara

Hope of Heaven

Hope of Heaven

Selected Short Stories of John O'Hara

Selected Short Stories of John O'Hara

Appointment in Samarra

Appointment in Samarra

The New York Stories

The New York Stories

America's Military Adversaries

America's Military Adversaries

Affect, Psychoanalysis, and American Poetry

Affect, Psychoanalysis, and American Poetry

Illustrations, Historical and Genealogical, of King James's Irish Army List, 1689

Illustrations, Historical and Genealogical, of King James's Irish Army List, 1689

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