by John O'Hara · Libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253129219
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«L'enfer Commence Avec Elle», the novel by John O'Hara (Distribooks Inc / Le Livre de Poche), in paperback.
In 1930s New York, Gloria Wandrous is a young woman who freely embraces her sexuality and defies bourgeois morality; Weston Liggett, a married family man, becomes obsessed with her. Inspired by a true event, the novel portrays the speakeasies and the double standards of New York's middle class during Prohibition.
Originally published as «Butterfield 8» in 1935; adapted into a film in 1960 as «La Vénus au vison» with Elizabeth Taylor.
For readers of 20th-century American classics and social portraits of interwar New York.
John Henry O'Hara was an American writer. He was one of America's most prolific writers of short stories, credited with helping to invent The New Yorker magazine short story style. He became a best-selling novelist before the age of 30 with Appointment in Samarra and BUtterfield 8. While O'Hara's legacy as a writer is debated, his work was praised by such contemporaries as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, and his champions rank him highly among the major under-appreciated 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.
