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Jim
Mar 12, 2017 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: fiction
I had never read anything by O'Hara before, and he probably would have stayed off my radar forever if I hadn't read Running with the Bulls: My Years with the Hemingways, in which Valerie Hemingway states that O'Hara was an author recommended to her by Papa himself(but not this title). I figured that if a writer is good enough for Papa Hemingway, who am I to pass him by?

So I figured I would start at the beginning and I was certainly not disappointed. I found a book with a noirish (if that's a wor ...more
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Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance
Jan 18, 2018 rated it really liked it
Shelves: the-classics-club
Julian English has everything a man could want in 1934 America---affluent background, beautiful wife, lovely home, rich friends, successful business---and yet, somehow, almost inexplicably, comes to destroy everything he has in the short space of 72 hours. It's the American dream turned nightmare, and it's horrific to watch, even from the pages of a book. A life overturned---and why? And for what? It's not clear and no one---not his friends, not his wife, not his parents, not even Julian himself ...more
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Missyjohnson1
Nov 03, 2024 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Suzanne
Dec 10, 2018 rated it it was ok  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: 1930s, holiday
2.5 stars
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