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PIPE NIGHT by John O'Hara

PIPE NIGHT

by John O'Hara

Pub Date: March 14th, 1945
Publisher: Duell, Sloan & Pearce

31 sketches whose deadly revealing precision, range of character, situation and idiom impale human nature mercilessly...From two testimonials of unbelievable understatement, whose content is entirely opposite from their context, — two of the well-known Pal Joey letters, several Hollywood and moving picture delineations, marital misadventures, to the eerie events preceding a country club dance, situations involving returned servicemen, the tragedy of a middleaged couple, etc. — these vary from straight narration to dialogue, in tight concentration.