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Bezig met laden... Collected Stories of John O'Hara: Selected and With an Introduction by Frank MacShanedoor John O'Hara
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. too old ( ) A stunning and unassuming collection. In a few seemingly slapdash phrases, O'Hara manages to give insightful histories to his characters. It took me a few stories to appreciate O'Hara's sensibilities and the characters he chooses to focus on. They're deeply deeply flawed, every action belying a wealth of history. And we're only allowed to see them through these (mostly) five-paged stories in a claustrophobic yet transient setting (on a train trip / in a restaurant / in a hotel / on the same bus trip everyday). Despite the constraints of his settings, their variety amazes me, especially in their brevity. They capture the eroding upstanding righteousness of early 20th century America in sharp focussed snapshots. I wouldn't say I love these stories but I highly respect and appreciate them, both in terms of O'Hara's craft and dedication to chronicling this particular milieu. Favourite story so far: Imagine Kissing Pete, which at almost fifty pages is actually one of the longer of O'Hara's short stories. Most surprising story because of the context: The Doctor's Son, a story set in a small mining town during the 1918 flu epidemic. Further reading: I really enjoyed this article on O'Hara's stories. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
These are the stories, unavailable for some years and still amazingly fresh and arresting, that influenced a whole generation of short-story writers, not one of whom capped O'Hara's mastery of the genre. The selection includes: the "Pennsylvania stories" which describe the men and women in the countryside where O'Hara grew up; the "Hollywood stories" that show that fabled land in the years of its greatest glory when O'Hara was working there as a screenwriter; and the "New York stories" which come from the days when O'Hara was a familiar figure in cafe society. ISBN 0-394-54083-2 : $19.95. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.52Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1900-1944LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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