num_pages: 331
description: "Appointment in Samarra" is a fast-paced, blackly comic depiction of the rapid decline and fall of Julian English. English is part of the social elite of his 1930s American hometown but from the moment he impetuously throws a cocktail in the face of one of his powerful business associates his life begins to spiral out of control - taking his loving but troubled marriage with it.
language: English
title: Appointment in Samarra
titlecomplete: Appointment in Samarra
characters: Julian English, Froggy Ogden, Caroline English, Harry Reilly
genres: Fiction, American, The United States Of America, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Modern Classics
ratings_count: 15156
places: Mississippi
publisher: G K Hall & Co