by John O'Hara · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781784873738
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«New York Stories» is John O'Hara's collection of short stories, published by Penguin Random House in paperback (400 pages, in English).
The volume brings together thirty-two stories set in New York that portray, with an incisive eye, characters from different social strata —taxi drivers, barbers, office workers and high-society ladies— during the city's so-called golden age. O'Hara captures the everyday speech and emotional tension of an era.
Originally published as «The New York Stories» in 2013; this Vintage Classics edition is from 2018.
For readers of literary fiction, short stories and twentieth-century American classics.
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.
