John O'Hara SERMONS AND SODA-WATER First Edition Box Set

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John O'Hara SERMONS AND SODA-WATER First Edition Box Set

Box Set of 3 Volume hardbacks SERMONS AND SODA-WATER by John O'Hara and published by Random House, New York, in 1960. All stated as 'First printing' on the copyright pages. The books are 1. The Girl on the Baggage Truck;, 2. Imagine Kissing Pete;, 3. We're Friends Again.

All the books are in very good condition with only slight wear (All yellow front boards with gray back and black spines with blue lettering on the front, white lettering at the back and yellow & white lettering on the spine. Blue tinted top page edges. With very slight creases around the top spine edges and minor tanning to the spine, light rubbing to some of the corners) No dust jackets as issued. The original blue & black box itself is in good condition with slight wear (light rubbing to the edges and surfaces and a little soiled in parts, slightly musty smell). Internally, the pages of all of the books are clean and tight and there are no tears and no inscriptions. There is minor tanning and foxing to the endpapers.

John Henry O'Hara (1905 1970) earned a reputation first for short stories and became a best-selling novelist by age thirty with Appointment in Samarra and Butterfield 8. He was particularly known for an uncannily accurate ear for dialogue. O'Hara was a keen observer of social status and class differences, and wrote frequently about the socially ambitious. A controversial figure, O'Hara had a reputation for personal irascibility and for cataloging social ephemera, both of which frequently overshadowed his gifts as a storyteller.

The set comprises three volumes of John O'Hara's SERMONS AND SODA-WATER; A Trilogy of Three Novellas with his special view of American life, sharpened by the passionate desires and raw intimacies that make up the relationships between men and women in our times.

1. THE GIRL IN THE BAGGAGE TRUCK: This first book explores the difference between the kinds of things that matter to people and the facts that appear in their obituaries. 106 pages.

2 - IMAGINE KISSING PETE: The remarkable long tale of a bad marriage gone good with which O'Hara returned to The New Yorker in 1960 after an absence of a decade. 112 pages.

3 - WE'RE FRIENDS AGAIN: This is a tale about two loveless marriages, one of which is accompanied by an enduring affair. 110 pages.

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