Word: hara
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rains's current caper is a $250,000 job for Maureen O'Hara, who has flown into Lisbon to find help in rescuing her industrialist husband from behind the Iron Curtain. But instead of getting on with the story, everyone stands around and talks. Ray tells Maureen how his divorced wife deceived him; Maureen tells Ray why she married a rich old man, and Yvonne Furneaux explains why she joined Claude's harem ("I have known destitution"), and laments that she isn't as pure as on her confirmation...
...FAMILY PARTY (64 pp.]−;John O'Hara;−Random House...
John O'Hara's talent as a novelist runs to stenographic reporting and, as any reader of his bestselling Ten North Frederick knows, he reports most expertly on Pennsylvania small towns whose very ordinary people all seem to lead extraordinary sex lives. O'Hara fans can now get, between hard covers, one of his minor magazine stories that proves that he can exercise his talent with his left hand. It also proves that he can suppress-at least for the space of 64 pages-his obsessive preoccupation with...
TIME's Nov. 28 review of Ten North Frederick by John O'Hara is stupid...
TIME's review of Ten North Frederick says what needed saying about O'Hara, and says it with just the right length of blade and cutting edge...