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Original Title:	Appointment in Samarra
ISBN:	0375719202 (ISBN13: 9780375719202)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Julian English, Froggy Ogden, Harry Reilly, Caroline English

Appointment in Samarra

John O'Hara

Paperback | Pages: 251 pages

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Title	:	Appointment in Samarra
Author	:	John O'Hara
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 251 pages
Published	:	July 8th 2003 by Vintage (first published January 28th 1934)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Novels. Literature

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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. Julian English is a man who squanders what fate gave him. He lives on the right side of the tracks, with a country club membership, and a wife who loves him. His decline and fall, over the course of just 72 hours around Christmas, is a matter of too much spending, too much liquor, and a couple of reckless gestures. That his calamity is petty and preventable only makes it more powerful. In Faulkner, the tragedies all seem to be taking place on Olympus, even when they’re happening among the low-lifes. In O’Hara, they could be happening to you.

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John O'Hara may not have had the most felicitous style of his generation, but he had plenty to say. APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA rounds out my list of five English-language novels (in my case, all 20th-Century American novels). This is the underappreciated one; I can't honestly say that of BABBITT, THE GREAT GATSBY, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD or even LOLITA. The last day in the life of Julian English, just as the Great Depression is beginning to be felt. Realistic, gutsy, surprising, heartbreaking.

The narrator, I'm told, is Death. That reminds me of The Book Thief in that way.

Ill start with two paragraphs that I think illustrate John OHaras powerful writing: It was a lively, jesting grief, sprightly and pricking and laughing, to make you shudder and shiver up to the point of giving way completely. Then it would become a long black tunnel; a tunnel you had to go through, had to go through, had to go through, had to go through, had to go through. No whistle. But had to go through, had to go through, had to go through. Whistle? Had to go through, had to go through, had

John O'Hara may not have had the most felicitous style of his generation, but he had plenty to say. APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA rounds out my list of five English-language novels (in my case, all 20th-Century American novels). This is the underappreciated one; I can't honestly say that of BABBITT, THE GREAT GATSBY, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD or even LOLITA. The last day in the life of Julian English, just as the Great Depression is beginning to be felt. Realistic, gutsy, surprising, heartbreaking.

Part of the challenge this summer is to read new-to-me authors. John O'Hara is definitely one I'll be reading more. I have complained to myself that starting a book is often slow, then I get accustomed to the author's style by about page 50 and it takes off. My mind needed no adjustment for O'Hara's writing style, and I was right in stride by page 2.Gibbsville is a place unfamiliar to me. I never moved in these high social circles and, frankly, am pretty much unaware of them now. My experience

On the back of this novel, Hemingway offered the following blurb: "if you want to read a book by a man who knows exactly what he is writing about and has written it marvelously well, read Appointment in Samarra." Unfortunately, the subject John O'Hara knows so much about, and about which he does occasionally pen very beautiful pages, is the social life of the country club set in a little backwater city in central Pennsylvania. The novel takes place in 1930, but apart from a few passing

In one of the greatest scenes Ive read in recent memory, Julian English fantasizes about throwing his drink in the face of Harry Reilly. What has Harry done? Nothing, really. But at this particular dance, Harry Reilly tells story after story, and its not just that Harry has a specific method to his storytelling, mannerisms of which Julian tires. But he dissuades himself, reminding himself that Harry has loaned him quite a bit of money to pull Julian out of a pinch at the Cadillac dealership.