John O'Hara (1) (1905–1970)
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A propos de l'auteur
John Henry O'Hara was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania on January 31, 1905. Many of his novels and short stories were set in fictionally named Pennsylvania towns with the main themes centering on class conflict and status. He began writing for the New Yorker in 1928; and during his life, sold 225 afficher plus stories to the magazine. His first collection, The Doctor's Son and Other Stories (1935) was followed by twelve more. Pal Joey (1940) was made into a Broadway musical by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart and later was adapted into a film starring Frank Sinatra and Rita Hayworth. Some of his published novels include Appointment in Samarra (1934), A Rage to Live (1949), The Lockwood Concern (1965), and The Good Samaritan and Other Stories (published posthumously in 1974). Ten North Frederick (1955) won the National Book Award and Butterfield 8 (1935) and From the Terrace (1958) were adapted into movies in 1960. He died from cardiovascular disease on April 11, 1970. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Œuvres de John O'Hara
Collected Stories of John O'Hara: Selected and With an Introduction by Frank MacShane (1984) 221 exemplaires
Four Novels of the 1930s: Appointment in Samarra / Butterfield 8 / Hope of Heaven / Pal Joey (2019) 81 exemplaires
A Rage to Live [1965 film] — Screenwriter — 4 exemplaires
Graven Image 3 exemplaires
Afternoon Waltz 2 exemplaires
One For The Road 2 exemplaires
Stories of Venial Sin 2 exemplaires
Andrea 2 exemplaires
Flight 2 exemplaires
Are We Leaving Tomorrow? 2 exemplaires
Do You Like It Here? 2 exemplaires
Over the River and Through the Woods 2 exemplaires
A Cub Tells His Story 1 exemplaire
The Kids 1 exemplaire
Nil Nisi 1 exemplaire
The Time Element 1 exemplaire
Family Evening 1 exemplaire
Requiescat 1 exemplaire
The Frozen Face 1 exemplaire
Last Respects 1 exemplaire
The Industry And The Professor 1 exemplaire
The Busybody 1 exemplaire
This Time 1 exemplaire
Grief 1 exemplaire
For Help And Pity 1 exemplaire
Short Stories 1 exemplaire
The Big Gleaming Coach 1 exemplaire
All I've Tried To Be 1 exemplaire
The Favor 1 exemplaire
That First Husband 1 exemplaire
The War 1 exemplaire
All the Girls he Wanted 1 exemplaire
Straight Pool {short story} 1 exemplaire
Hope Of Heaven and Other Stories 1 exemplaire
THE SECOND EWINGS 1 exemplaire
Supernatural. Appointment in Samarra 1 exemplaire
The Sun-Dodgers 1 exemplaire
The Dry Murders 1 exemplaire
Eileen 1 exemplaire
The Tackle 1 exemplaire
Price's Always Open 1 exemplaire
The Assistant 1 exemplaire
Fatimas And Kisses 1 exemplaire
The Gambler 1 exemplaire
The General 1 exemplaire
Exactly Eight Thousand Dollars Exactly 1 exemplaire
The Jama 1 exemplaire
James Francis And The Star 1 exemplaire
Late, Late Show 1 exemplaire
Leonard 1 exemplaire
The Neighborhood 1 exemplaire
The Pomeranian 1 exemplaire
The Portly Gentleman 1 exemplaire
The Skeletons 1 exemplaire
The Way To Majorca 1 exemplaire
He Thinks He Owns Me 1 exemplaire
The Lady Takes An Interest 1 exemplaire
The Brothers 1 exemplaire
The Heart Of Lee W. Lee 1 exemplaire
Memorial Fund 1 exemplaire
The Last Of Haley 1 exemplaire
At The Cothurnos Club 1 exemplaire
Interior With Figures 1 exemplaire
No Justice 1 exemplaire
The Weakling 1 exemplaire
Not Always 1 exemplaire
The Skipper 1 exemplaire
Pilgrimage 1 exemplaire
Conversation At Lunch 1 exemplaire
Encounter: 1943 1 exemplaire
Yostie 1 exemplaire
A Good Location 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
In Another Part of the Forest: An Anthology of Gay Short Fiction (1994) — Contributeur — 175 exemplaires
Published and Perished: Memoria, Eulogies, and Remembrances of American Writers (2002) — Contributeur — 37 exemplaires
Celebration: 60 Years of Good Reading from 60 Authors Chosen by the Literary Guild (1987) 2 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- O'Hara, John Henry
- Autres noms
- Delaney, Franey
- Date de naissance
- 1905-01-31
- Date de décès
- 1970-04-11
- Lieu de sépulture
- Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Pottsville, Pennsylvania, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Princeton, New Jersey, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA
- Études
- Niagara Prep School, Lewiston, New York
- Professions
- novelist
short-story writer
playwright
screenwriter
reporter
movie critic (tout afficher 8)
radio broadcaster
press agent - Relations
- Bryan, C. D. B. (stepson)
- Organisations
- Collier's
Newsday
Authors Guild
Dramatists Guild
Authors League of America
Screen Writers Guild (tout afficher 23)
National Press Club
Silurians
Nassau Club
Field Club
Century Association
Raquet Club
Beach Club
Loyal Legion
National Golf Links of America
Kew-Teddington Observatory Society
Hessian Relief Society
Sigma Delta Chi
Pottsville Journal
Pennsylvania Railroad
Time magazine
Pittsburgh Bulletin-Index
Warner Bros. - Prix et distinctions
- Gold Medal of the Academy of Arts and Letters (1964)
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Honorary citizen of Philadelphia (1961)
John O'Hara House on National Register of Historic Places
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 129
- Aussi par
- 35
- Membres
- 6,144
- Popularité
- #4,005
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 109
- ISBN
- 235
- Langues
- 9
- Favoris
- 10
This is certainly the plight of Julian English, the protagonist of this tale of upper middle class WASPS in 1930s Gibbsville, Illinois. Julian's the owner of a prosperous Cadillac dealership, husband to a wife who genuinely loves him (in her whiny 1930s way), with a social life that revolves around the local country club and its WASPy members. But in the course of an eventful two days, fate relentlessly hunts our golden boy down, the result of a combination of misbehaviour, mischance, misapprehension, and not an insignificant measure of hubristic overreach, as Julian (along with many other characters in this novel) consistently reaches for more than he needs or wants.
O'Hara's claim to fame is that he was, at one time, the most prolific contributor of tales to the New Yorker magazine, and boy does this read like something Woody Allen would pen. It's well written and crafted, but the incessant whininess of the characters can get a little fatiguing. With the exception of a subplot involving a low-level hood named Al Grecco, everyone here is dealing with WASP-y first-world problems: attending the "right" college, driving the "right" car, marrying the "right" spouse, living in the "right" neighborhood, attending the "right" social events and parties, drinking, gossiping, and judging each other relentlessly. The crimes that destroy Julius aren't crimes in the legal sense, but crimes against the norms of his class: throwing a drink into the face of a social peer, drinking too much, humiliating his wife.
Almost 100yrs later, some aspects of this tale - the country club dances & raccoon coats, the male-centric marriages, the insane drinking - may feel like a time capsule. Alas, however, the central themes of this tale - social gamesmanship and snobbery, hypocrisy, hubris & self-emoliation - are timeless.… (plus d'informations)