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A Rage to Live
John O'Hara
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Description for A Rage to Live
Paperback. When the beautiful, imperious and moneyed Grace Caldwell Tate wants something she goes after it. Her affair scandalises Pennsylvania's elite and she must face the costs to her marriage and the man she really loves. Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 41. Weight in Grams: 470.
'O'Hara is the only American writer to whom America presents itself as a social scene in the way it once presented itself to Henry James, or France to Proust' The New York Times
When the beautiful, imperious and moneyed Grace Caldwell Tate wants something she goes after it, men included. Her affair scandalises Pennsylvania's elite and she must face the costs to her marriage and the man she really loves.
A bestseller on publication in 1949, A Rage to Live is a candid tale of idealists and libertines, tradesmen and crusaders, men of violence and goodwill, and women ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
736
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
736
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099528821
SKU
V9780099528821
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About John O'Hara
John O'Hara was born in Pennsylvania on 31 January 1905. His first novel, Appointment in Samarra (1934), won him instant acclaim, and he quickly came to be regarded as one of the most prominent writers in America. He won the National Book Award for his novel Ten North Frederick and had more stories published in the New Yorker than anyone ... Read more
Reviews for A Rage to Live
A man who knows exactly what he is writing about and has written it marvellously well
Ernest Hemingway O'Hara occupies a unique position...He is the only American writer to whom America presents itself as a social scene in the way it once presented itself to Henry James, or France to Proust
Lionel Trilling
New York Times
... Read more
Ernest Hemingway O'Hara occupies a unique position...He is the only American writer to whom America presents itself as a social scene in the way it once presented itself to Henry James, or France to Proust
Lionel Trilling
New York Times
... Read more