Hat on the Bed

by John O'Hara

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394427920
• ISBN13: 9780394427928
• Release Date: January 1963
• Publisher: Random House Trade
• Length: 405 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

superb

This is the best collection of short stories I have ever read, the weakest story by far, oddly enough, being the first. But the rest... there's not a false move in them.

Hats off to John O'Hara!

Like most of the works of master-marketer John O'Hara, "the Hat on the Bed," a collection of short stories, was a best seller when it was first released in 1962. As the titles of the first few stories in the collection (Agatha, Aunt Anna, Eminent Domain, Exterior: with Figure, The Flatted Saxophone, The Friends of Miss Julia, The Glendale People)suggest, these are stories in O'Hara's usual vein: character sketches and comments on the social fabric of early to mid twentieth century America. Automobiles, cheating spouses, real estate values, and Gibbsville, PA, are all to be found in this volume.