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Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara (1994, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherRandom House Publishing Group

ISBN-100679601104

ISBN-139780679601104

eBay Product ID (ePID)157104

Product Key Features

Book TitleAppointment in Samarra

Number of Pages364 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGeneral, Literary

Publication Year1994

GenreFiction

AuthorJohn O'hara

Book SeriesModern Library Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight11.1 Oz

Item Length7.2 in

Item Width4.7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN94-004340

Reviews"Exceptionally brilliant." -New York Herald Tribune "[O'Hara] is the only American writer to whom America presents itself as a social scene in the way it once presented itself to Henry James, or France to Proust." -Lionel Trilling,The New York Times "Dramatic . . . exciting . . . vivid and written at high speed . . . accurate and often penetrating." -The Nation "If you want to read a book by a man who knows exactly what he is writing about and has written it marvelously well, readAppointment in Samarra." -Ernest Hemingway From the Trade Paperback edition.

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal813.5/2

SynopsisA twentieth-century classic,Appointment in Samarrais the first and most widely read book by the writer Fran Leibowitz called "the real F. Scott Fitzgerald." In December 1930, just before Christmas, the Gibbsville social circuit is electrified with parties and dances, where the music plays late into the night and the liquor flows freely. At the center of the social elite stand Julian and Caroline English--the envy of friends and strangers alike. But in one rash moment born inside a highball glass, Julian breaks with polite society and begins a rapid descent toward self-destruction.Appointment in Samarrabrilliantly captures the personal politics and easy bitterness of small-town life. It is John O'Hara's crowning achievement, and a lasting testament to the keen social intelligence of a major American novelist. From the Trade Paperback edition.

LC Classification NumberPS3529.H29A8 1994