O'Hara, John

New York. 1963. August 1963. Signet/New American Library. 10th Printing of This Signet Classic Edition. Previous Owner's Name in Front, Otherwise Very Good in Wrappers. Afterword By Arthur Mizener. 216 pages. paperback. CP177. keywords: Signet Classic Paperback America Literature . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Handsome, well - born Julian English sits in his Cadillac with only a fifth of Scotch and a pack of cigarettes to keep him company as he waits for death. What path has led him to this tragic rendezvous? Is it a fatal flaw of character that in three short days has brought his life to ruin? Is he the victim of social forces operating as inexorably as the gears in a deadly machine? With a style as finely honed as a scalpel, John O'Hara lays bare the anguish of a desperately driven man and dissects the Pennsylvania town in which he meets his fate. Exposed is a world of banker and bootlegger, country club and pool hall. Exposed are the subtleties that bind humans together, the pressures that separate them, the delicate and shifting emotional balances that can change love into hate and life into death. 'It is not Q'Hara's merely factual knowledge but his imaginative grasp of American life that makes Appointment in Samarra a remarkable book.' - ARTHUR MIZENER. 'More than anyone now writing, O'Hara understands the complex, contradictory, asymmetrical society in which we live.' - LIONEL TRILLING. inventory #31320