Gibbsville, PA The Classic Stories |
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| Author:
| O'Hara, John |
| Editor:
| Bruccoli, Matthew J. |
| Preface by:
| Higgins, George V. |
| Foreword by:
| Schulberg, Budd |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7867-1362-2 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2004 |
| Publisher: | Hachette Books
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| Imprint: | Da Capo Press, Incorporated |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $17.00 |
Book Description:
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John O’Hara’s greatest accomplishment is available in a handsome newly revised one-volume edition. The famous Gibbsville stories, more than fifty of them--include such stunners as "The Doctor’s Son,” "Imagine Kissing Pete,” "Fatimas and Kisses,” "The Cellar Domain,” and "The Bucket of Blood.” Again, O’Hara’s Pennsylvania Protectorate, as he called it--in reality, the coal region of his hometown, Pottsville, in Schuylkill...
More DescriptionJohn O’Hara’s greatest accomplishment is available in a handsome newly revised one-volume edition. The famous Gibbsville stories, more than fifty of them--include such stunners as "The Doctor’s Son,” "Imagine Kissing Pete,” "Fatimas and Kisses,” "The Cellar Domain,” and "The Bucket of Blood.” Again, O’Hara’s Pennsylvania Protectorate, as he called it--in reality, the coal region of his hometown, Pottsville, in Schuylkill County--comes to socially and sexually complicated life. Here are the miners in the company towns, the country club set, the shopkeepers, the bartenders, the barbers, and the collegians. It is a world as varied, vibrant, and complete as Faulkner’s Yoknapatawphna County or Thomas Wolfe’s Altamount. Presented in this Book-of-the-Month Club Selection are four decades of the best work by the author who Bennett Cerf declared one of America’s most underrated writers.