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Assembly, by John O'Hara. The best ear in the business listens in on modern America with 26 short stories, some of which rank high among O'Hara's upper-middle classics...
Assembly, by John O'Hara. In the best of these 26 short stories, which are very good indeed, the author superbly uses sight and sound in the skilled creation of mood...
Small & Nasty. At their best, O'Hara's stories have no murky depths, but a kind of mordant clarity. Exactly Eight Thousand Dollars Exactly is a quick, clear look at the phenomena of brotherly hate. A middle-aged no-good arrives at an industrial park to put the touch on his brother, who runs the place. He treads indifferently on the sensibilities of a couple of employees, listens stonily while his brother tells him he is worthless. But once he has the check in hand, he leaves with a sneer for his brother and, as a parting note...
...stories in the collection, perhaps ten of them should have been thrown out by O'Hara's editors-if an author as well established as he still has editors. In one of the failures, a woman is supposed to have slept with her daughter's suitor to keep him (or so she tells herself) from straying to another girl. In another, a man who is neither drunk nor perverted accepts his host's offer to let him sleep with the host's wife, a former prostitute, for a fee of $100. These stories...
Distinct Speech. With the hypnotized fascination of an outsider, O'Hara still writes about the Eastern establishment-gentry who can tell, from a snarled sentence heard in the night, not only that the speaker is Harvard, Racquet Club and drunk, but what brand of 20-year-old Scotch he has been drinking. The fascination has endured for years, and so has Hemingway's crack that someone should take up a collection and send O'Hara to Yale...