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A review by bronwynmb
Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara
4.0
This was really interesting. It took me a little bit to get into the swing of how it’s written; it jumps around a bit and is sometimes removed from the action. Once I got used to it I wound up really enjoying this. Watching the quick self-destruction of Julian was fascinating. And all the small-ish town relationships were great. All the clubs and dynamics of ~1930 and bootleggers was a nice snapshot of the time and place.
There’s a decent amount of antisemitism here that can be pretty well explained by when it was written, but I thought I’d mention it as at times it is a bit much. Though there’s also anti-Polish and -Irish and -Italian talk. So basically if you’re not a WASP there’s probably some slurs in here.
There’s a decent amount of antisemitism here that can be pretty well explained by when it was written, but I thought I’d mention it as at times it is a bit much. Though there’s also anti-Polish and -Irish and -Italian talk. So basically if you’re not a WASP there’s probably some slurs in here.