Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Appointment in Samarra

3.8/5 ( ratings)

O’Hara did for fictional Gibbsville, Pennsylvania what Faulkner did for Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi: surveyed its social life and drew its psychic outlines, but he did it in utterly worldly terms, without Faulkner’s taste for mythic inference or the basso profundo of his prose. Julian English is a man who squanders what fate gave him. He lives on the right side of the tracks, with a country club membership, and a wife who loves him. His decline and fall, over the course of just 72 hours around Christmas, is a matter of too much spending, too much liquor, and a couple of reckless gestures. That his calamity is petty and preventable only makes it more powerful. In Faulkner, the tragedies all seem to be taking place on Olympus, even when they’re happening among the low-lifes. In O’Hara, they could be happening to you.

Language: English

Pages: 251

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Vintage

Release: July 08, 2003

ISBN: 0375719202

ISBN 13: 9780375719202

Appointment in Samarra

3.8/5 ( ratings)

O’Hara did for fictional Gibbsville, Pennsylvania what Faulkner did for Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi: surveyed its social life and drew its psychic outlines, but he did it in utterly worldly terms, without Faulkner’s taste for mythic inference or the basso profundo of his prose. Julian English is a man who squanders what fate gave him. He lives on the right side of the tracks, with a country club membership, and a wife who loves him. His decline and fall, over the course of just 72 hours around Christmas, is a matter of too much spending, too much liquor, and a couple of reckless gestures. That his calamity is petty and preventable only makes it more powerful. In Faulkner, the tragedies all seem to be taking place on Olympus, even when they’re happening among the low-lifes. In O’Hara, they could be happening to you.

Language: English

Pages: 251

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Vintage

Release: July 08, 2003

ISBN: 0375719202

ISBN 13: 9780375719202

More books from John O'Hara

BUtterfield 8

3.5/5 ( ratings)

From the Terrace

3.9/5 ( ratings)

A Rage to Live

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Selected Short Stories of John O'Hara

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Hope of Heaven

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Pal Joey

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Sermons and Soda-Water

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Collected Stories of John O'Hara

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Ten North Frederick

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Sixteen Short Novels

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Elvis and You: Your Guide to the Pleasures of Being an Elvis Fan

3.2/5 ( ratings)

El cuento norteamericano contemporáneo

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Pal Joey

New Stories for Men

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Pal Joey

2.5/5 ( ratings)

The New York Stories

2.5/5 ( ratings)

Here's O'Hara: BUtterfield 8, Pal Joey, Hope of Heaven, Plus 20 Short Stories

2.5/5 ( ratings)

Graven Image

2.5/5 ( ratings)

Butterfield 8

2.5/5 ( ratings)

Ten North Frederick

2.5/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?