Butterfield 8
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the glittering yet morally ambiguous world of 1930s New York, BUtterfield 8 chronicles the turbulent life of Gloria Wandrous, a beautiful and reckless young woman whose scandalous reputation and desperate search for love set her on a collision course with society's rigid expectations. John O'Hara constructs a razor-sharp portrait of ambition, desire, and destruction against a backdrop of speakeasies, high society, and simmering class tensions, drawing the reader into a world where one night of passion can unravel an entire life. Inspired by a real-life tabloid scandal, O'Hara's prose is bracingly unsentimental, capturing the rhythms of New York street life and upper-crust hypocrisy with equal precision. His mastery of dialogue and social observation earned him comparisons to F. Scott Fitzgerald, and BUtterfield 8 stands as one of his most daring achievements — a novel that asks, with unflinching honesty, whether a woman condemned by her past can ever truly escape it.
Author: John O'Hara
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the glittering yet morally ambiguous world of 1930s New York, BUtterfield 8 chronicles the turbulent life of Gloria Wandrous, a beautiful and reckless young woman whose scandalous reputation and desperate search for love set her on a collision course with society's rigid expectations. John O'Hara constructs a razor-sharp portrait of ambition, desire, and destruction against a backdrop of speakeasies, high society, and simmering class tensions, drawing the reader into a world where one night of passion can unravel an entire life. Inspired by a real-life tabloid scandal, O'Hara's prose is bracingly unsentimental, capturing the rhythms of New York street life and upper-crust hypocrisy with equal precision. His mastery of dialogue and social observation earned him comparisons to F. Scott Fitzgerald, and BUtterfield 8 stands as one of his most daring achievements — a novel that asks, with unflinching honesty, whether a woman condemned by her past can ever truly escape it.