Appointment in Samarra

Зарубежная классическая проза

Автор: О'Хара Джон

Язык: английский

Год: 2013

Издатель: Penguin Books

ISBN: 978-1-101-60295-9

Город: New York

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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 social elite stand Julian and Caroline English. But in one rash moment born inside a highball glass, Julian breaks with polite society and begins a rapid descent toward self-destruction. Brimming with wealth and privilege, jealousy and infidelity, O’Hara’s iconic first novel is an unflinching look at the dark side of the American dream—and a lasting testament to the keen social intelligence of a major American writer.

“Appointment in Samarra lives frighteningly in the mind.”
—John Updike

“If you want to read a book by a man who knows exactly what he is writing about and has written it marvelously well, read Appointment in Samarra.”
—Ernest Hemingway