# Appointment in Samarra

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- Authors: [John O'Hara](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-ohara)
- Publisher: vintage_classics
- ISBN: 978-00-9951-832-7
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2018-07-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'For all its excellence as a social panorama and a sketch of a marriage, it is as a picture of a man destroyed by drink and pride that Appointment in Samarra lives frighteningly in the mind' John Updike Julian English prides himself a member of his hometown’s social elite, but from the moment he throws a cocktail in the face of a powerful business associate his life spirals out of control, taking his loving but troubled marriage with it. Following English’s rapid decline and fall, Appointment in Samarra is a fast-paced and blackly comic portrait of 1930s America. O’Hara’s debut novel introduced a prolific new voice to a generation and still stands as one of the great works of American fiction.