Synopses & Reviews
A bestseller when it was originally published in 1935, this is a brilliant, brutal portrait of New York's speakeasy generation.
Review
"Like Henry James, O'Hara could create a world where class and social strictures are all-important but not openly discussed." The Village Voice
About the Author
John O'Hara was born in 1905. He published his first novel, Appointment in Samarra, before he was thirty. He wrote fourteen novels, including Pal Joey, A Rage to Live, and Ten North Frederick, for which he won the National Book Award. John O'Hara died in 1970.