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"O'Hara is the candid, dramatic story of one of the most brilliant novelists and short story writers America has ever produced. From John O'Hara's turn-of-the-century boyhood in the Pennsylvania coal-town of Pottsville--immortalized as Gibbsville in his novels--to his death, Finis Farr seizes upon the paradoxes of O'Hara's life: the personal vices, the snobbery, the extravagant tastes of the man--and the blazing honesty with which his writing stripped away those affectations in others"--Book jacket.
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2 editions- Other · English · 1974Ebury Publishing · 9780491014823
- Other · English · 1973Little, Brown · 300 pages · 9780316274739
American NovelistsBiographyO'hara, john, 1905-1970Authors, americanAuthors, biography