Gibbsville, PA: The Classic Stories

ISBN: 0786713623

Author: O'Hara, John

Condition: New

John OHaras greatest accomplishment is available in a handsome newly revised one-volume edition. The famous Gibbsville stories, more than fifty of them-include such stunners as The Doctors Son, Imagine Kissing Pete, Fatimas and Kisses, The Cellar Domain, and The Bucket of Blood. Again, OHaras Pennsylvania Protectorate, as he called it-in reality, the coal region of his hometown, Pottsville, in Schuylkill County-comes to socially and sexually complicated life. Here are the miners in the company towns, the country club set, the shopkeepers, the bartenders, the barbers, and the collegians. It is a world as varied, vibrant, and complete as Faulkners Yoknapatawphna County or Thomas Wolfes Altamount. Presented in this Book-of-the-Month Club Selection are four decades of the best work by the author who Bennett Cerf declared one of Americas most underrated writers.