One of the glories of O'Hara is that he is bursting with
character
studies. Every time he introduces someone new, he loads on
the back
story. The man was over flowing with stories. (You might also
try a
volume of his short tales, most of them written for the New
Yorker.
They are like a tough Chekhov, if you can imagine such a
thing. Here
are some favorite lines from stories in the collection THE
CAPE COD
LIGHTER:
"The land that had been intact for a million years was
now
capriciously bulldozed and gouged out to make a site for a
silly house
for a silly woman, who had nothing better to do that decorate
herself
with paint and let the sun darken her skin to falsify her
age."
"Justice"
"There is something about the words rogue and rascal that
brings a
smile to the eyes of people who never spent any time with
rogues and
rascals."
"One man with half his face shot away and curled up in the
back of a
sedan looks much the same as another man who died in the
same
circumstances."
"The Sun-Dodgers")
dgb
---BaxDeal@aol.com wrote:
>
> >What O'Hara books would you recommend?
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