Appointment in Samarra: A Novel
“Exceptionally brilliant.” —New York Herald Tribune“[O'Hara] is the only American writer to whom America presents itself as a social scene in the way it once presented itself to Henry James, or France to Proust.” —Lionel Trilling,The New York Times“Dramatic . . . exciting . . . vivid and written at high speed . . . accurate and often penetrating.” —The Nation“If you want to read a book by a man who knows exactly what he is writing about and has written it marvelously well, readAppointment in Samarra.” —Ernest Hemingway