Butterfield 8 (Modern Library Classics) - Softcover

O'Hara, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812966988 ISBN 13: 9780812966985

Verlag: Random House LCC US, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

Caught up in the fast life of 1930s New York City, Gloria Wandrous becomes tragically involved with a married man.

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Fran Lebowitz is the author of two books of essays, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies, and a children’s book, Mr. Chas and Lisa Sue Meet the Pandas. She is currently at work on a novel entitled Exterior Signs of Wealth, and Progress, a book-length essay.

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upon its publication in 1935, BUtterfield 8 was inspired by a news account of the discovery of the body of a beautiful young woman washed up on a Long Island beach. Was it an accident, a murder, a suicide? The circumstances of her death were never resolved, but O Hara seized upon the tragedy to imagine the woman s down-and-out life in New York City in the early 1930s.

O Hara understood better than any other American writer how class can both reveal and shape character, Fran Lebowitz writes in her Introduction. With brash honesty and a flair for the unconventional, BUtterfield 8 lays bare the unspoken and often shocking truths that lurked beneath the surface of a society still reeling from the effects of the Great Depression. The result is a masterpiece of American fiction.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Random House LCC US
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0812966988
• ISBN 13: 9780812966985
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
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