John O'Hara's Hollywood / stories by John O'Hara ; edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Hara, John, 1905-1970.

Contributor:

Bruccoli, Matthew J. (Matthew Joseph), 1931-2008.

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Fiction.

Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.).

California--Fiction.

California.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xiv, 383 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Carroll & Graf, [2007]

Summary:

On the sound stage, behind the facades of Spanish-style mansions, and inside studio trailers, at costumes and makeup, in posh nightclubs and in back rooms filled with cigar smoke, here are the ruthless producers, over-the-hill directors, disillusioned writers, glamorously callous actresses, desperate and hungry starlets, and matinee idols with dark secrets as they are penetratingly observed by one of America's masters of realism. Best known for the classic 1934 novel Appointment in Samarra and such bestsellers as Ten North Frederick and Butterfield 8, in a career spanning four decades John O'Hara also published seventeen story collections. Among his greatest work, they possess qualities that sold more than 15 million copies of his books in the course of his career: the sharp dialogue, the telling detail, the ironic narrative twist. Like the novels, and like the much-praised collection of John O'Hara's Gibbsville stories, also edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli, the selections in John O'Hara's Hollywood, many originally appearing in the New Yorker or the Saturday Evening Post, explore the materialist aspirations and sexual exploits of flawed characters for whom compromises pass for love.

Contents:

Mr. Sidney Gainsborough: quality pictures

Saffercisco

Brother

Richard Wagner: public domain?

Reunion over lightly

The magical numbers

Adventure on the set

Fire!

Everything satisfactory

Drawing room B

Eileen

The industry and the professor

In a grove

The Glendale people

Yucca Knolls

The answer depends

James Francis and the star

Natica Jackson

The way to Majorca

The sun room

Malibu from the sky

Hello Hollywood good-gye.

ISBN:

0786718722

9780786718726

OCLC:

83596385