Re: RARA-AVIS: New Guy in Town
James Rogers (jetan@ionet.net)
Wed, 4 Feb 1998 23:30:34 -0600 (CST)
At 11:44 PM 2/4/98 -0500, you wrote:
>On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, James Rogers wrote:
>
>: You are the only other person I have seen on the
list
>: to mention O'Hara.I guess his hardboiled stuff has
been overshadowed
>: by the later "society" books, like _From The
Terrace_.
>
>What O'Hara books would you recommend? The list in the
back of
>O'Brien's _Hardboiled America_ has the following by
him:
>
> _A Rage to Live_
> _Appointment in Samarra_
> _Butterfield 8_
> _Hope of Heaven_
> _Pal Joey_
> _The Farmers Hotel_
>
>I read _Butterfield 8_ and _Pal Joey_ a while back, and
I remember
>them as very depressing. I know nothing about the
others.
>
Yes, they are pretty much all depressing as I recall.
_Appointment In Samarra_ ,though, is a classic. Sort of a cross
between F.
Scott Fitzgerald (O'Hara's idol) and a W.R. Burnett gangster
novel.
James
James Michael Rogers
jetan@ionet.net
" I carried it too far, that's for sure" - Jeffrey
Dahmer
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