It's interesting that John O'Hara has been brought up
lately--from the message about Lawrence Block, I
suppose.
The only books I know of his are APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA,
which is noir, and TEN NORTH FREDERICK, I think that's about
an older man who is seeing his daughter's girl friend. Oh,
yes, and BUTTERFIELD EIGHT, which has one of mthe most
grusome endings for a non-horror book I have ever read--the
heorine being ground to death in the paddle wheel of a ferry
boat.
Maybe the reason O'Hara is forgotten is that he is noir--but
not quite. But he did an excellent job of making the 40s and
50s come alive for me, much as Dickens did with Victorian
England.
Jack Bludis
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