This book is a collection of twenty-six stories featuring a broad range of typical O'Hara characters: the big shots, the lovelies, the brassy wits, the clucks, the operators, the sharp, the weary, and the disillusioned. These characters are rendered with color, detail, and passion. His stories are both splendid and appalling. O'Hara has been called a photographic observer of American urban life.
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This book is a collection of twenty-six stories featuring a broad range of typical O'Hara characters: the big shots, the lovelies, the brassy wits, the clucks, the operators, the sharp, the weary, and the disillusioned. These characters are rendered with color, detail, and passion. His stories are both splendid and appalling. O'Hara has been called a photographic observer of American urban life.
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Very good. No dust jacket as issued. (091706a) 1st Mass market paperback edition is in Very Good+ condition with 1/3" spine tear upper left corner, light crease in spine, wear at spine corners, very light overall wear. 200p., 21 cm. Avon Books #293
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Very Good. First paperback edition. Color illustrated softcovers. Very good. Collection of O'Hara short stories, most of which appeared in The New Yorker magazine 1945-1947. "Hollywood starlets and wayward showgirls...bohemians and hopped-up batflies...Broadway moguls and some very good Joes and Janes..."
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This is a used book in GOOD condition. May have minor defects such as wearing to outside cover, a name written on inside cover, or a few notations throughout. Hardcover edition. First Edition. No Dust Jacket.