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Mar 1, 1981 · Dutton. 274 pp. $15.95. By Millicent Bell. February 28, 1981 at 7:00 p.m. EST. IN THE LATE 1930s in New York and Hollywood, John O'Hara was known as a hard drinker, often coarse and violent, whose ...
Nov 7, 2016 · O’Hara was the son of a prosperous Pennsylvania doctor but was plunged into rough times when his father died at the age of 57, in debt and without a will. Sudden poverty prevented the young O ...
BUtterfield 8 (1935) is a realist novel by John O'Hara. It is a roman à clef loosely based upon the life of socialite and flapper Starr Faithfull, whose unsolved death in 1931 became a tabloid sensation. [1] [2] Reviews were mixed but the novel was a best-seller. It was adapted for a 1960 movie of the same name, starring Elizabeth Taylor and ...
Nov 16, 2015 · Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered. By Thomas Mallon. November 16, 2015. Books. John O’Hara’s Pal Joey remains an exemplar of a rare form: the epistolary novella. From Robert Jonas’s cover for an early paperback edition of Pal Joey, ca. 1946.
John O'Hara ’s was the first and the one most well-known. In 1960 the movie BUtterfield 8, based on O’Hara’s book, starred Elizabeth Taylor. She won an Oscar for her role. The movie, the novels and what is actually known about the Starr Faithfull case all differ one from the other. Look at the title.
O’Hara sought in his fiction to capture experience without pretension or literary affectation. A modernist like his contemporaries Hemingway and Fitzgerald, he drew on the plainspoken directness of the American vernacular to fashion a sharp-edged, urbane mode of storytelling distinctly his own—forthright, attentive to the smallest detail ...
May 25, 2021 · Indeed, O’Hara was “the first writer . . . to deal fictionally with the social and emotional possibilities of the New Deal dignitaries” (Critical Essays on John O’Hara 41–43). The “New Deal bigwig,” an undersecretary in the Roosevelt administration, arrives for lunch at an exclusive men’s club in Washington with a former Harvard ...
