Books written by John O'Hara
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Current Issues and Enduring Questions + Launchpad for Current Issues and Enduring Questions Six Months Access Card + Writer's Help...
Current Issues and Enduring Questions + Launchpad for Current Issues and Enduring Questions Six Months Access Card + Writer's Help...
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From Critical Thinking to Argument + Launchpad Solo for Readers and Writers Six-month Access Card
From Critical Thinking to Argument + Launchpad Solo for Readers and Writers Six-month Access Card
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A Mug's Game: A History of Gaming and Betting in Australia
From cover:- Almost ninety percent of Australians gamble- anything from two-up to the Melbourne Cup sweep; from the 'pokies' [poker machines] to the glittering casinos; from the Harold Park trots...
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Gloria Wandrous
Con todo lujo de detalles, "Cuando éramos los mejores" nos transporta a una época inolvidable y revela por primera vez los entresijos de la carrera de dos jugadores cuya máxima aspiración era derrotar ...
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John O'Hara's Hollywood
On the sound stage and the casting couch, behind the facades of Spanish style mansions and inside studio trailers, at costumes and makeup, in posh nightclubs and in backrooms filled...
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Ten North Frederick
Bridge, the stories of John Cheever, and Mad Men as a brilliant portrait of the personal and political hypocrisy of mid-century America.
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A Rage to Live
'O'Hara is the only American writer to whom America presents itself as a social scene in the way it once presented itself to Henry James, or France to Proust' The...
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A Rage to Live
A momentous bestseller when it was first published in 1949, John O'Hara's sprawling novel A Rage to Live offers up a gorgeous pageant of idealists and libertines, tradesmen and crusaders,...
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From Critical Thinking to Argument: A Portable Guide
From Critical Thinking to Argument is a very brief but thorough guide to critical thinking and argument. With only fifteen readings, this affordable guide can stand alone or complement an anthology.
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Pal Joey
On the seedy side of Chicago, Joey Evans is a poor man's Bing Crosby, a wise-cracking crooner down on his luck but always on the make.
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Pal Joey: The Novel and The Libretto and Lyrics
Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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Big River Racing: A History of the Clarence River Jockey Club 1861-2001
... 161 , 180 , 186 Carlill , R 83 Carlton , John 157 , 221 , 222 Carmont , WH 66 Carrs Creek , NSW 11 , 31 , 40 , 53 , 164 , 178 Carruthers , Joseph 64 , 70 Casino Cup carnival 129 Casino Jockey Club 100 , 103 , 114 Casino , NSW 6 ...
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The Big Laugh
The famously sharp-edged social realism and always on-the-money dialogue of the late novelist John O'Hara (1905-1970) are brought to bear in a stinging saga of ambition and fate, Hollywood style.
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Selected Short Stories
"John O'Hara's fiction," wrote Lionel Trilling, "is preeminent for its social verisimilitude." Made famous by his bestselling novels, including BUtterfield 8 and Appointment in Samarra, O'Hara (1905-1970) also wrote some...
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John O'Hara: Stories (LOA #282)
Writing with equal insight about New York City, Hollywood, and the small-town Pennsylvania world where he grew up, John O’Hara cultivated an unsentimental and often unsparing realism, aiming, he said, “to record the way people talked ...
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The New York Stories
Collected for the first time, the New York stories of John O'Hara, "among the greatest short story writers in English, or in any other language" (Brendan Gill, Here at The New Yorker) Collected for the first time, here are the New York ...
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Collected Stories of John O'Hara
These are the stories, unavailable for some years and still amazingly fresh and arresting, that influenced a whole generation of short-story writers, not one of whom capped O'Hara's mastery of...
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Hope of Heaven
James Malloy, a screenwriter in 1930s Hollywood, falls in love with Peggy Henderson, a young woman with a mysterious past
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Two by O'Hara
Two by O'Hara
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Current Issues and Enduring Questions + Achieve for Current Issues and Enduring Questions Six-months Access
This new edition does more than ever to make argument concepts clear, and to give students strategies for crafting effective arguments.