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...sexual relations among the people of "Gibbsville"--which was modelled after the author's hometown of Pottsville, Pa.--so explicitly for the time that people "who I knew very slightly and who were certainly never in my mind as characters, threatened to sue me for defamation of character," O'Hara later wrote...
...HARA'S LIFE and writings had not been so wild and iconoclastic, the gaps in context and continuity in Frank MacShane's recent biography, The Life of John O'Hara, A Rage to Live, would be fatal. As it is, the book reads more like a novel than a biography. The narrator, choosing a limited point of view, does not fill in many...
...Hara himself probably would not approve of MacShane's writing. "Practically all good writing is a form of protest," O'Hara wrote. Narration of facts, not circumstances, and plot summary, rather than character analysis, rarely constitute protest...
MacShane raggedly splices quotes into otherwise smooth scenes. For instance, O'Hara, at a bar in Hollywood with a fellow writer, Robert Benchley, has just struck a woman and slapped Benchley's cigar out of his mouth. The next morning O'Hara calls Benchley...
...Hara: I just wanted to say I'm sorry...