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...Cape Cod Lighter, by John O'Hara. The author writes better than ever of heels and down-at-the-heels in Gibbsville. Pa., and small-town New Jersey in this collection of short stories...
...CAPE COD LIGHTER (425 pp.)-John O'Hara-Random House...
...preface to The Cape Cod Lighter* his latest collection of short stories, is O'Hara's best yet. He explains the "spiteful vindictiveness'' of reviewers for TIME and the weekly reviews by saying that they are all failed novelists. The great man adds loftily: "I never see the little magazines, so I don't know what the hell goes on there, but I can guess...
...title will seem wholly enigmatic to readers who do not know that a Cape Cod lighter is a kerosene-soaked brick, convenient for starting fires in living room fireplaces...
...home of the bean and the cod...