hope of heaven

On John O’Hara’s ‘Appointment in Samarra’, ‘Butterfield 8’, ‘Hope of Heaven’, and ‘Pal Joey’

On John O’Hara’s ‘Appointment in Samarra’, ‘Butterfield 8’, ‘Hope of Heaven’, and ‘Pal Joey’

Party girls, cads, and hopeless dreamers from a distant but eternally familiar past -- John O'Hara was a writer who deserved his place in the bleacher section of Great American Writers.