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characters A Rage to Live Modern Library Classics review A Rage to Live Modern Library Classics 103 free read ↠ eBook or Kindle ePUB í John O'Hara Than that of any other ction writer of his time” judged The New Yorker “One would have to go back to Frank Norris Stephen Crane and Theodore Dreiser to nd a novelist who had even the intention of acuiring knowledge on the scale that O’Hara acuired it The saga of Grace Caldwell a socialite from a time when that meant setting standards of behavior rather than panty flashes falling out of a limo Ostensibly she isn t terribly likable but there is something irresistible about her unapologetic masculine behavior which displays the double standards and hypocrisy of the time A long book perfect to cozy up with in the winter or for lazy summer days The Homelanders (The Homelanders, rather than panty flashes falling out of a limo Ostensibly she isn t terribly likable but there is something irresistible about her unapologetic masculine behavior which displays the double standards and hypocrisy of the time A long book perfect to cozy up with in the winter or for lazy summer days
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characters A Rage to Live Modern Library Classics review A Rage to Live Modern Library Classics 103 free read ↠ eBook or Kindle ePUB í John O'Hara A momentous bestseller when it was first published in 1949 John O’Hara’s sprawling novel A Rage to Live offers up a gorgeous pageant of idealists and libertines tradesmen and crusaders men of violence and goodwill and women of fierce strength and tendern Ah such excruciating detail on the small town elite of imagined Fort Allen PA O Hara deserves credit for this detailed setting and I was surprised for the matter of fact and fairly explicit sex scenes of an early 60s book Was O Hara ahead of his time Did the work get banned here and thereI thought from the movie Grace would be an unbridled nymphomaniac just someone that seemed damaged in a way and gave in to the expectation that she would put out She seemed slightly tragic her husband Sidney dying of a broken heart lamely so and Richard Bannon like Greek tragedyI thought the ending with documentary style where are they now of the key dramatis personae was weak and the book overlong and slow
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characters A Rage to Live Modern Library Classics review A Rage to Live Modern Library Classics 103 free read ↠ eBook or Kindle ePUB í John O'Hara Ess These memorable characters and their vital stories add up to a large scale social chronicle of America in what is perhaps the most ambitious work of O’Hara’s career “The range of O’Hara’s knowledge of how Americans live was incomparably greater It s O Hara post Appointment in Samarra When he s good he s very very good and when he s bad he s awful This one is a little bit of both could have stood trimming by a hundred pages or two but I still far prefer him to the ever priggish Brendan Gill who famously demolished the book for The New Yorker resulting in a lengthy O Hara boycott of the magazine Good on class differences as usual kind of an interesting portrayal of the main character Grace Caldwell given that it s a male writer trying to explain female experience he does a better job than most of his contemporaries Grace s husband Sidney Tate comes across as of a paper figure kind of like Leslie Howard as Ashley WIlkes The author knows his rural Pennsylvania landscape though The 7 Components of Transformative Organizing Theory range of O’Hara’s knowledge of how Americans live was incomparably greater It s O Hara post Appointment in Samarra When he s good he s very very good and when he s bad he s awful This one is a little bit of both could have stood trimming by a hundred pages or two but I still far prefer him to the ever priggish Brendan Gill who famously demolished the book for The New Yorker The Big Golden Book of Poetry resulting in a lengthy O Hara boycott of the magazine Good on class differences as usual kind of an interesting portrayal of the main character Grace Caldwell given that it s a male writer trying to explain female experience he does a better job than most of his contemporaries Grace s husband Sidney Tate comes across as of a paper figure kind of like Leslie Howard as Ashley WIlkes The author knows his NITRO: The Incredible Rise and Inevitable Collapse of Ted Turner's WCW rural Pennsylvania landscape though