Appointment in Samarra
«Mr O'Hara's eyes and ears have been spared nothing, but he has kept in his heart a curious and bitter mercy»
'For all its excellence as a social panorama and a sketch of a marriage, it is as a picture of a man destroyed by drink and pride that Appointment in Samarra lives frighteningly in the mind' John Updike Les mer
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'For all its excellence as a social panorama and a sketch of a marriage, it is as a picture of a man destroyed by drink and pride that Appointment in Samarra lives frighteningly in the mind' John Updike
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Vintage Classics
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 272
- ISBN
- 9780099518327
- Utgivelsesår
- 2008
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
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«Mr O'Hara's eyes and ears have been spared nothing, but he has kept in his heart a curious and bitter mercy»
Dorothy Parker
«O'Hara writes with swift realism, wisely avoids sentimentality»
Time Magazine
«
Dramatic...exciting...vivid and written at high speed...accurate and often penetrating
» The Nation
«Better than anyone else, he told the truth about his time, the first half of the twentieth century. He was a professional. He wrote honestly and well»
John O’Hara on John O’Hara. He had this inscribed on his gravestone.
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