Butterfield 8 - Couverture souple

O'Hara, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 185375319X ISBN 13 : 9781853753190

Editeur : Prion Books Ltd, 1999

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

A bestseller upon its publication in 1935, BUtterfield 8 was inspired by a news account of the discovery of the body of a beautiful young woman washed up on a Long Island beach. Was it an accident, a murder, a suicide? The circumstances of her death were never resolved, but O’Hara seized upon the tragedy to imagine the woman’s down-and-out life in New York City in the early 1930s.

“O’Hara understood better than any other American writer how class can both reveal and shape character,” Fran Lebowitz writes in her Introduction. With brash honesty and a flair for the unconventional, BUtterfield 8 lays bare the unspoken and often shocking truths that lurked beneath the surface of a society still reeling from the effects of the Great Depression. The result is a masterpiece of American fiction.

Quatrième de couverture :

'A man who knows exactly what he is writing about and has written it marvelously well' Ernest Hemingway

'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 best seller 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.

See also: Appointment in Samarra

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Prion Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1999
• ISBN 10: 185375319X
• ISBN 13: 9781853753190
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288