Word: haras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Roth is a natural novelist--as opposed to those whose real forte is the short story--and the effect of his writing is cumulative. Those accustomed to the spare prose and one-sentence characterizations of Hemingway and O'Hara may find his style wordy and flamboyant. But where the more journalistic writers can sum up a situation with a single detail, Roth creates a richer world by his very lack of conciseness...
...HORSE KNOWS THE WAY, by John O'Hara. The fourth recent collection of this prolific writer's low-keyed chronicles, but not just more of the same. O'Hara's imagination is even livelier, his psychology broader, and the feeling implicit in a story such as Some Days I Get Such a Longing reaches an intensity that he has rarely equaled since Appointment in Samarra...
...HORSE KNOWS THE WAY, by John O'Hara. More short stories by one of the alltime masters of the art. With this, his fourth collection in as many years, O'Hara is threatening to cut off the supply to concentrate on long fiction...
...HORSE KNOWS THE WAY, by John O'Hara. More short stories by one of the all-time masters of the art. With this, his fourth collection in as many years, O'Hara is threatening to cut off the supply to concentrate on long fiction...
ALICE R. O'HARA...