The main character's one-time love, a lowborn Polish girl named Mary Manners, is seen at the end of this book drinking with Ross Campbell.
The main character's one-time love, a lowborn Polish girl named Mary Manners, is seen at the end of this book drinking with Ross Campbell. This novel's title is a reference to Somerset Maugham's last play Sheppey, which contains a tale about Death in the form of a woman spotting a servant at a Baghdad marketplace. Al Grecco, a henchman for the gangster Ed Charney, is at the Stage Coach Inn where he spies on the protagonist, who punches his disabled friend Froggy Ogden the following night. The book chronicles three tragic days in the life of that protagonist, a Cadillac salesman ►in Gibbsville named Julian English. FTP, name this first novel by John O'Hara in which Julian is destined to keep the titular commitment. 
The main character's one-time love, a lowborn Polish girl named Mary Manners, is seen at the end of this book drinking with Ross Campbell.
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