Reviews
"A man who knows exactly what he is writing about and has written it marvelously well." --Ernest Hemingway, "Like Henry James, O'Hara could create a world where class and social structures are all-important but not openly discussed." - The Village Voice, "A man who knows exactly what he is writing about and has written it marvelously well." --Ernest Hemingway "Like Henry James, O'Hara could create a world where class and social structures are all-important but not openly discussed." - The Village Voice "O'Hara understood better than any other American writer how class can both reveal and shape character.... [His] genius was in his unerring precision in capturing the speech and the milieus of his characters, whether the setting was Pennsylvania, Hollywood, or New York." -Fran Lebowitz "O'Hara occupies a unique position in our contemporary literature... He 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 "An author I love is John O'Hara. . . . I think he's been forgotten by time, but for dialogue lovers, he's a goldmine of inspiration." - Douglas Coupland, Shelf Awareness "One of the great novels of New York in the Depression . . . [O'Hara's] novels of the mid-thirties are his classics, and they deserve to be much more famous than they are." - Lorin Stein, editor of The Paris Review , from the Introduction , "O'Hara occupies a unique position in our contemporary literature... He 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, "One of the great novels of New York in the Depression . . . [O'Hara's] novels of the mid-thirties are his classics, and they deserve to be much more famous than they are." - Lorin Stein, editor of The Paris Review , from the Introduction , "O'Hara is one of the great underrated writers of the last century. . . . [ BUtterfield 8 is] a definitive picture of speakeasy culture at the start of the Depression." -Lorin Stein, editor of The Paris Review , from the Introduction , "A man who knows exactly what he is writing about and has written it marvelously well." -Ernest Hemingway, "O'Hara understood better than any other American writer how class can both reveal and shape character.... [His] genius was in his unerring precision in capturing the speech and the milieus of his characters, whether the setting was Pennsylvania, Hollywood, or New York." -Fran Lebowitz, "An author I love is John O'Hara. . . . I think he's been forgotten by time, but for dialogue lovers, he's a goldmine of inspiration." - Douglas Coupland, Shelf Awareness "One of the great novels of New York in the Depression . . . [O'Hara's] novels of the mid-thirties are his classics, and they deserve to be much more famous than they are." - Lorin Stein, editor of The Paris Review , from the Introduction
