John O’Hara (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
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John O’Hara is probably best known to American readers for his long, complex novels of manners, liberally spiced with sex and seasoned with class conflict. Most of his stories are set in that coal-mining region of Pennsylvania known as The Region by its inhabitants, an O’Hara domain which was ruled, at least fictionally, by the city of Gibbsville. He also wrote seven plays, five of them included in Five Plays (1961). From 1934 to 1957, he worked on treatments, adapted other fictions, and wrote original screenplays for Hollywood. He received sole...
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