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)...
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De los casi cuatrocientos cuentos que el prolífico John OHara escribió en vida, y de los que esta editorial publicó veinticinco en la antología La chica de California y otros relatos, el autor de Pottsville, Pensilvania, optó en diversas ocasiones a lo largo de su obra por el género de la novella: relatos largos, que abarcan un periodo de tiempo generalmente superior al de un cuento, aunque inferior al de una novela, y que incluyen diversas...
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Un domingo por la mañana, la joven Gloria Wandrous se levanta con una resaca espantosa en el apartamento de un hombre al que conoció la noche anterior. Apenas recuerda nada de la víspera, y su vestido está violentamente rasgado. Cuando decide llevarse el abrigo de visón de la mujer de su amante, se desencadenan toda una serie de funestos acontecimientos que acabarán en tragedia.
Inspirada en hechos reales-la muerte en extrañas circunstancias...
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Por primera vez en castellano, esta antología reúne algunos de los mejores relatos de John O'Hara. "Hijo" de Hemingway y Fitzgerald, y precursor de Salinger, Updike o Carver, O'Hara escribió más cuentos que nadie para la prestigiosa revista The New Yorker y es uno de los maestros de la narrativa breve norteamericana. Sus diálogos forma privilegiada del vehículo de sus cuentos y el resultado de un oído finísimo se encuentran entre los mejores...
5) Pal Joey
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For its 75th anniversary and Frank Sinatra's centennial: the Jazz Age masterpiece that inspired the iconic Sinatra film and the hit Broadway musical, and featuring the musical's libretto and lyrics, On the seedy side of Chicago, nightlife in the 1930s, Joey Evans is a poor man's Bing Crosby, a big-talking, small-time nightclub crooner down on his luck but always on the make. In slangy, error-littered letters signed “Pal Joey,” he recounts his...
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Library of America volume 313
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Library of America
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[2018]
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Already a frequent contributor of well-crafted stories to The New Yorker when he turned to the larger canvas of the novel, John OHara wrote with unusual acuity about the power of status and class in American life. His reputation as a novelist rests largely on four extraordinary books published from 1934 to 1940. These early novels, like those of his contemporaries Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, dramatize the longings and dashed hopes of...
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"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"--Amazon.com.