Book
Appointment in Samarra
by John O'Hara
- Published
- 1934
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Pages
- 251
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126583.Appointment_in_Samarra?ac=1&from_search=true
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.
Collections
Time Magazine 1923-2005
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780143107071
- ISBN-10
- 0143107070
Tags
DeathFateScience-PhilosophyShort StoryTime Magazine Best Books