This Avon paperback from the early 1960s collects 32 John O'Hara stories, most of them character sketches of a few pages rather than traditional stories. As such they often trail away wistfully, without much resolution. O'Hara has great ear for dialogue, and as another reader has observed, his "simple style," unlike Hemingway's, does not call attention to itself. O'Hara was published hundreds of times in the New Yorker, but not a single one of these stories would be published in the magazine today if submitted anonymously.
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