John O’Hara “From The Terrace” First Edition 1st Printing 1958 NF/VG
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John O’Hara “From the Terrace” First Edition 1st Printing ~ 1958 NF/VG ConditionThe book is in excellent condition - a Very Good dust jacket with rubbing, minor creasing and edge wear and a Near Fine book with light rubbing and minimal wear (condition as pictured).With over three million copies sold, O'Hara's great novel of America in the first half of the century was made into an acclaimed film starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. It richly chronicles one man's rise to weal...th, power, and prominence - and the haunting sense of failure at his heart.John Henry O'Hara was an American writer who earned his early literary reputation for short stories and became a best-selling novelist before the age of 30 with Appointment in Samarra and Butterfield 8. His work stands out among that of contemporaries for its unvarnished realism.While O'Hara's legacy as a writer is debated, his champions rank him highly among the under-appreciated and unjustly neglected major American writers of the 20th century. Few college students educated after O'Hara's death in 1970 have discovered him, chiefly because he refused to allow his work to be reprinted in anthologies used to teach literature at the college level.
