- Ethnic relations, Fiction, Fiction in English, Marriage
O’Hara did for fictional Gibbsville, Pennsylvania what Faulkner did for Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi: surveyed its social life and drew its psychic outlines, but he did it in utterly worldly terms, without Faulkner’s taste for mythic inference or the basso profundo of his prose.
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Grave, classical in form, bleak and earnest.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- John O'Hara
- First published
- 1934
- Pages
- 301
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Penguin Classics, Tandem Library
- Editions
- 35
- Language
- cze, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9780099518327
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