Appointment in Samarra | Related Titles
Although Appointment in Samarra is not part of a series of novels that are sequels to one another, it does introduce characters that reappear in his other fiction, and it establishes the coal-mining region of Eastern Pennsylvania as one of the major locales in his work. Julian's father, Dr. English, is a minor character in several of O'Hara's later works, and Jim Malloy, who is mentioned but not developed in this novel, becomes the narrator of the three novellas in Sermons and Soda-Water (1960). The relationship between Whit Hofman, here a minor character, and Pat Collins...
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