John O'Hara

The best-loved book by the writer whom Fran Lebowitz compared to the author of The Great Gatsby, calling him “the real F. Scott Fitzgerald”
One of the great novels of small-town American life, Appointment in Samarra is John O’Hara’s crowning achievement. In December 1930, just before Christmas, the Gibbsville, Pennsylvania, social circuit is electrified with parties and dances. At the center of the...

Hope of Heaven by John O'Hara is a gripping exploration of ambition, love, and disillusionment set against the glittering backdrop of 1930s Hollywood. This novella follows the story of Jim Malloy, a journalist navigating the seductive but morally complex world of Los Angeles. Malloy falls in love with a young woman named Peggy, a relationship that brings him both joy and inner turmoil as he becomes increasingly aware of the forces working against...

Un domingo por la mañana, la joven Gloria Wandrous se levanta con una resaca espantosa en el apartamento de un hombre al que conoció la noche anterior. Apenas recuerda nada de la víspera, y su vestido está violentamente rasgado. Cuando decide llevarse el abrigo de visón de la mujer de su amante, se desencadenan toda una serie de funestos acontecimientos que acabarán en tragedia. Inspirada en hechos reales-la muerte en extrañas circunstancias...

For its 75th anniversary and Frank Sinatra's centennial: the Jazz Age masterpiece that inspired the iconic Sinatra film and the hit Broadway musical, and featuring the musical's libretto and lyrics On the seedy side of Chicago nightlife in the 1930s, Joey Evans is a poor man's Bing Crosby-a big-talking, small-time nightclub crooner down on his luck but always on the make. In slangy, error-littered letters signed "Pal Joey," he recounts his exploits...