Word: samarra
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...rumor's life, the information is tailored to suit the vendor's interests and emotional needs. Those who believe that McCartney is dead, for instance, are in part sublimating their fear of the grave. For whenever death visits another person, it must delay its appointment in Samarra with you. Frequently, the death of a public figure breeds a host of rumors about the supposed deaths of other public figures. Within hours after Franklin Roosevelt died in 1945, rumors falsely consigned General George Marshall, Bing Crosby and New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia to the same end. John Kennedy...
...trail of authors' names: Robert Louis Stevenson, William Faulkner, Jack London, Raymond Chandler. One name he fails to drop is that of the man who made the legend famous by basing a whole novel on it. He is John O'Hara, and his book was Appointment in Samarra...
...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...
...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...
...generally admitted that Samarra and Butterfield 8 are brilliant, but they were done so long ago that they are no defense for their author, gnat-bitten by reviewers in middle age. What is not admitted is that A Rage to Live, Ten North Frederick and From the Terrace are excellent novels. From the Terrace. the best of the three, stands almost alone in U.S. fiction as a thoroughly successful study of a man reaching for the highest financial power. The novel is 897 pages long; it lacks drama and is built, like most lives, entirely of minutiae. It moves slowly...