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050	0	0	_aPS3529.H29 _bZ93 2003
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100	1		_aWolff, Geoffrey
245	1	4	_aThe art of burning bridges _b: a life of John O'Hara _c/ Geoffrey Wolff
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York _b: Alfred A. Knopf _c, 2003
300			_a373 p. _b: illus. _c; 25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index
520			_aAn enigma of twentieth-century literature-a writer accorded great importance in his time, if less than in his own mind - the strange case of John O'Hara. The accomplishments are undeniable. He cut a wide swath through a Manhattan demimonde whose fierce friendships and bitter feuds-fueled by oceans of booze - were played out at such institutions as the Stork Club, "21," and the Algonquin Round Table. But for all his best-sellers-one of which, Pal Joey, was a hit on Broadway, adapted by Rodgers and Hart - O'Hara had emerged in the wake of Fitzgerald and Hemingway, whose reputations buffeted his own. His preoccupations as a novelist of manners became dated as the world of speakeasies, the Social Register, Ivy League universities, and august clubs was inevitably undermined, while his prickly, status-obsessed outsider's personality failed to engage (and often enraged) changing fashions. What Geoffrey Wolff reveals is not only the hugely complicated man in full but also his rightful place in our contemporary attention - a portrait of the artist that illuminates both the process of fiction and an era still vivid in our cultural history.
600	1	0	_aO'Hara, John _d, 1905 - 1970
650		0	_aNovelist, American _y--20th century _x--Biography
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