The New York Stories
  • Published: 3 September 2018
  • ISBN: 9781784873738
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $29.99

The New York Stories

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‘Superb. . . These thirty-two stories inhabit the Technicolor vernaculars of taxi drivers, barbers, paper pushers and society matrons. . . O'Hara was American fiction's greatest eavesdropper, recording the everyday speech and tone of all strata of mid-century society’ Wall Street Journal

‘Superb... These thirty-two stories inhabit the Technicolor vernaculars of taxi drivers, barbers, paper pushers and society matrons... O'Hara was American fiction's greatest eavesdropper, recording the everyday speech and tone of all strata of mid-century society’ Wall Street Journal

John O'Hara remains the great chronicler of American society, and nowhere are his powers more evident than in his portraits of New York's so-called Golden Age. Unsparingly observed, brilliantly cutting and always on the tragic edge of epiphany, the stories collected here are among O’Hara’s finest work, and show why he still stands as the most-published short story writer in the history of the New Yorker.
  • Published: 3 September 2018
  • ISBN: 9781784873738
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

John O'Hara

John O'Hara was born in Pennsylvania on 31 January 1905. His first novel, Appointment in Samarra (1934), won him instant acclaim, and he quickly came to be regarded as one of the most prominent writers in America. He won the National Book Award for his novel Ten North Frederick and had more stories published in the New Yorker than anyone in the history of the magazine. His fourteen novels include A Rage to Live, Pal Joey, BUtterfield 8 and From the Terrace. John O'Hara died on 11 April 1970.

Also by John O'Hara

John O'Hara: Four Novels of the 1930s (LOA #313)
A Rage to Live
Selected Stories
BUtterfield 8
Appointment in Samarra
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Praise for The New York Stories

You can binge on O’Hara’s collections in the way some people binge on Mad Men, and for some of the same reasons

Lorin Stein, Paris Review

Among the greatest short story writers in English, or in any other language

Brendan Gill, Here at The New Yorker

O'Hara occupies a unique position in our contemporary literature.... He is the only American writer to whom America presents itself as a social scene in the way it once presented itself to Henry James, or France to Proust

Lionell Trilling, The New York Times

Superb... The 32 stories inhabit the Technicolor vernaculars of taxi drivers, barbers, paper pushers and society matrons... O'Hara was American fiction's greatest eavesdropper, recording the everyday speech and tone of all strata of midcentury society

Wall Street Journal

O'Hara practices the classic form of the modern short story developed by Joyce and perfected by Hemingway... His coverage is worthy of a Balzac

E. L. Doctorow

This is fiction, but it has, for me, the clang of truth

John Updike

His short stories are gorgeous broken scenes of American life...and his style and themes - a bridge, if you will, between F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Updike -remain painfully and beautifully relevant today

Huffington Post

O Hara [was] a master of the short story... The stories have the tang of genuine observation and reporting... You're aware of how brilliantly O Hara uses dialogue to convey exposition, and of how often his people, like Hemingway s, leave unsaid what is really on their minds... Don Draper is an O Hara character if ever there was one

The New York Times Book Review