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oldpondnewfrog 's review for:
Appointment in Samarra
by John O'Hara
Reminded me of Hemingway, if Hemingway had written about the social circuit in a small town in Pennsylvania in the 1930s. Focused on the characters, their relationships with each other, and their private struggles. I enjoyed it as a sort of historical novel; it seemed to sit right on the brink of modernity, modern enough in the kind of sentences the narrator and other characters use, but noticeably aged in social customs and the way people still had to take a boat to cross an ocean. l liked the dialogue, saying it in my head in the voices of the silver screen.