John O'Hara

Spanning his 40-year career, this anthology collects, for the first time, the New York stories from one of the 20th century's definitive chroniclers of the city who explores the materialist aspirations and sexual exploits of the flawed. Original.

The New York Stories

‘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.

Lynn

A completely different take on reading, short simple stories you are thrown into - no beginnings, no middles, no ends. The eavesdrop-style of storytelling drew me into some stories more than others. Overall an enjoyable read.

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.

The New York Stories

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