Word: hara
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Instead of tackling this question, Biographer Matthew J. Bruccoli takes up the late O'Hara's cudgels and flails away at the writer's "enemies." "For the record," declares Bruccoli...
...HARA CONCERN by MATTHEW J. BRUCCOLI 417 pages. Illustrated. Random House...
...failed preppie from Pottsville, Pa., John O'Hara did not turn out so badly. He published 13 novels and 374 short stories during his 65 years. His Pal Joey sketches inspired the book for one of Broadway's landmark musicals. He was celebrated in New York and Hollywood and enjoyed an income of millions. He was even lucky in love: after the death of his beloved second wife...
Belle, he married another woman equally devoted to him and his work. He was also the most miserable, self-sorrowing author in the American pantheon. The reasons seem as petty as his tantrums: Yale would not give O'Hara an honorary degree, the critics curtsied to Faulkner and Hemingway but not to him, the Nobel Prize was never to be his. Successful beyond avarice, O'Hara proceeded to fume through life like the eternal arriviste...
...Buddhists v. Christians, Spaniards v. Portuguese, Franciscans v. Jesuits, Protestants v. Catholics. Author Clavell is an encyclopedic chronicler of Oriental lore (his bestselling Tai-Pan was set in Hong Kong), and he lubricates his massive research with regular doses of bloodshed. Readers who can suppress the urge to commit hara-kiri somewhere along the first exposition-laden chapters will get fair value for their money. Shōgun is, all by itself, a relatively cheap summer vacation...