Set in the Pennsylvania country made familiar in A Rage to Live and Appointment in Samarra, this novel is a parable of our times. Dust jacket art by John O'Hara Cosgrave II.
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"A Pressure cooker of passion and violence.",
This review is from: The Farmers Hotel (Mass Market Paperback)
Published in 1951, this was an entertaining, psychological tale about a variety of characters who get stuck at a rural hotel in a blizzard. They are two wealthy (think fox-hunting) types, who are not married; a country doctor; a negro employee (in the parlance of the time); a Pennsylvania Dutch cook; a gambling truckdriver; two strippers and their manager/piano player. They all fight a little and party a little. The truck driver seems a bit sinister and eventually tragedy strikes. A tiny snippet of the blurb on the back: "[...]a novel of men and women, caught in a pressure cooker of passion and violence." Good, quick read.
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This review is from: The Farmers Hotel (Mass Market Paperback)
Brief book that captures all life's gifts and burdens. I coouldn't put it down. Simply great, you can almost imagine the hotel itself.
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Pure O'Hara, all the way.,
By Patrick W. Crabtree "The Old Grottomaster" (Lucasville, OH USA) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
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If you were planning to launch into the writings of John O'Hara, this would be a fine place to either start or to finish. I have read all his works, catching this one last, and it came as a pleasant surprise. It has it all: abrupt death, sexual tension, hometown snobbery.... everything that makes O'Hara so great. This book can be read in one night if you typically eat supper early and stay up a little late. It bumps right along and you'll feel a personal sense of achievemnt as you finish. This is mid-20th Century literature at its very best. As I said, a little short, a novelette, perhaps, but still spectacular O'Hara fiction.
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