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Elizabeth Appleton, by John O'Hara. Transplanting a Southampton belle to the groves of Academe, America's poet laureate of provincial mores appraises smalltown college life for the first time and proposes that even the simplest marriage is really complicated...
...Elizabeth Appleton, O'Hara...
Elizabeth Appleton, by John O'Hara. Transplanting a Southampton belle to the Groves of Academe, America's poet laureate of provincial mores appraises small-town college life for the first time and proposes that even the simplest marriage is really complicated...
Elizabeth Appleton, by John O'Hara. You can get the girl out of the Social Register, but you cannot get the Social Register out of the girl, O'Hara seems to be saying in this sharp-eyed study of a Southampton girl who married down into academic life...
Chronicling Elizabeth's difficult progress, O'Hara unhappily relies on what is bad about his past writing as well as on what is good. Sex is too often not only Topic A, but also Topics B and C as well. His preoccupation with small-town sociology and the lives of secondary characters sometimes leads him to freight his dialogue with extra information until it sounds like a young playwright's first act. The experiment may be merely an attempt to put old wine into a slightly new bottle. It is not vintage O'Hara...