- National Book Award Winner, National book awards, Fiction in English, American fiction (fictional works by one author)
"The National Book Award-winning novel by the writer whom Fran Lebowitz called "the real F. Scott Fitzgerald". Joe Chapin led a storybook life. A successful small-town lawyer with a beautiful wife, two over-achieving children, and aspirations to be president, he seemed to have it all.
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Classical in form, prestige, character-led and meticulous.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- rawmeticulous
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- John O'Hara
- First published
- 1955
- Pages
- 408
- Publisher
- Barrie and Jenkins, Carroll & Graf Publishers, Barrie & Rockliffe
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780091651602
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