Book description
'On this Sunday morning in May, this girl who was later to be the
cause of a sensation in New York awoke much too early for her night
before'... This particular morning Gloria finds herself alone in a
stranger's apartment with nothing but a torn evening dress and her
stockings and panties. When she takes a fur coat from the wardrobe to
wear home, she sets in train a series of events that will lead to
tragedy.
A bestseller on its first publication, BUtterfield 8 is the
glittering story of a 1930s glamour girl whose ill-starred
entanglement with a respectable married man is set against a backdrop
of Manhattan bars and bedrooms.
John O'Hara was born in Pennsylvania on 31 January 1905. His first
novel,
Appointment in Samarra
(1934), won him instant acclaim, and quickly came to be regarded as one
of the most prominent writers in America. He won the National Book Award
for his novel
Ten North Frederick
and had more stories published in the New Yorker than anyone in the
history of the magazine. His fourteen novels include
A Rage to Live
,
Pal Joey
,
BUtterfield 8
and
From the Terrace
. John O'Hara died on 11 April 1970.
