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  <title><![CDATA[Selected Short Stories of John O'Hara (Modern Library Classics)]]></title>
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  <default_description>&amp;#8220;John O&amp;#8217;Hara&amp;#8217;s fiction,&amp;#8221; wrote Lionel Trilling, &amp;#8220;is preeminent for its social verisimilitude.&amp;#8221; Made famous by his bestselling novels, including &lt;i&gt;BUtterfield 8&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Appointment in Samarra&lt;/i&gt;, O&amp;#8217;Hara (1905&amp;#8211;1970) also wrote some of the finest short fiction of the twentieth century.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;First published by the Modern Library in 1956, &lt;i&gt;Selected Short Stories of John O&amp;#8217;Hara&lt;/i&gt; displays the author&amp;#8217;s skills as a keen social observer, a refreshingly frank storyteller, and a writer with a brilliant ear for dialogue. &amp;#8220;The stories in this volume,&amp;#8221; writes Louis Begley in his new Introduction, &amp;#8220;show the wide range of [O&amp;#8217;Hara&amp;#8217;s] interests and an ability to treat with a virtuoso&amp;#8217;s ease characters and situations from any place on America&amp;#8217;s geographic and social spectrum.&amp;#8221;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1980</original_publication_year>
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Though the introduction to this book credits O'Hara with having written stories that capture the speech of the characters and remain fresh though written quite some time ago, my feeling as I plodded my way through was that I'd read enough of his stories many years ago and shouldn't have bothered to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52586113">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[These short stories are brief and refreshing. More like photographs, although some are so obscure and objective I can hardly tell what's going on. A great way to clean your mind of bullshit. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have the hardcover]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This year's beach reading. The style took me a few stories before I really got into it, but he's one of those short story writers the sum of whose stories add up greater than the parts. Plus I'm on a learn about Philly history kick. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[John O'Hara is a worthy read.  His short fiction far outpaces his novels, but he is funny and weird and I really like him.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[O'Hara is an underappreciated, and oft-overlooked, part of great American literature.]]></body>
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