O'Hara

"O'Hara is the candid, dramatic story of one of the most brilliant novelists and short story writers America has ever produced. From John O'Hara's turn-of-the-century boyhood in the Pennsylvania coal-town of Pottsville--immortalized as Gibbsville in his novels--to his death, Finis Farr seizes upon the paradoxes of O'Hara's life: the personal vices, the snobbery, the extravagant tastes of the man--and the blazing honesty with which his writing stripped away those affectations in others"--Book jacket.