Hellbox
By John O'Hara
1947
First Published
3.18
Average Rating
190
Number of Pages
This book is a collection of twenty-six stories featuring a broad range of typical O'Hara characters: the big shots, the lovelies, the brassy wits, the clucks, the operators, the sharp, the weary, and the disillusioned. These characters are rendered with colour, detail, and passion in true O'Hara style. His stories are both splendid and appalling; but always readable. O'Hara has been called a photographic observer of American urban life.
Avg Rating
3.18
Number of Ratings
34
5 STARS
12%
4 STARS
21%
3 STARS
47%
2 STARS
15%
1 STARS
6%
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Author
John O'Hara
Author · 43 books
American writer John Henry O'Hara contributed short stories to the New Yorker and wrote novels, such as BUtterfield 8 (1935) and Ten North Frederick (1955). Best-selling works of John Henry O'Hara include Appointment in Samarra . People particularly knew him for an uncannily accurate ear for dialogue. O'Hara, a keen observer of social status and class differences, wrote frequently about the socially ambitious. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John\_O&#...</a>
