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BUtterfield 8
ISBN-13:
9781407019574
Veröffentl:
2008
Einband:
EPUB
Seiten:
240
Autor:
John O’Hara
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
John Henry O'Hara wurde 1905 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania geboren. Er arbeitete als Mechaniker, Sekretär, Parkwächter, fliegender Händler und Reporter, ehe er seine ersten Kurzgeschichten veröffentlichte. Er starb 1970 in Princeton, New Jersey.
More than any other American novelist, O'Hara has both reflected his times and captured the unique individual for generations to come LA Times'On this Sunday morning in May, this girl who was later to be the cause of a sensation in New York awoke much too early for her night before'This particular morning Gloria finds herself alone in a stranger's apartment with nothing but a torn evening dress and her stockings and underwear. When she takes a fur coat from the wardrobe to wear home, she sets in train a series of events that will lead to tragedy. A bestseller on its first publication, BUtterfield 8 is the glittering story of a 1930s glamour girl whose ill-starred entanglement with a respectable married man is set against a backdrop of Manhattan bars and bedrooms.
More than any other American novelist, O'Hara has both reflected his times and captured the unique individual for generations to come LA Times'On this Sunday morning in May, this girl who was later to be the cause of a sensation in New York awoke much too early for her night before'This particular morning Gloria finds herself alone in a stranger's apartment with nothing but a torn evening dress and her stockings and underwear. When she takes a fur coat from the wardrobe to wear home, she sets in train a series of events that will lead to tragedy. A bestseller on its first publication, BUtterfield 8 is the glittering story of a 1930s glamour girl whose ill-starred entanglement with a respectable married man is set against a backdrop of Manhattan bars and bedrooms.