“On this Sunday morning in May, this girl who later was to be the cause of a sensation in New York, awoke much too early for her night before. One minute she was asleep, the next she was completely awake and dumped into despair. It was the kind of despair that she had known perhaps two thousand times before, there being 365 mornings in a calendar year.”
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John O'Hara was an American writer born on January 31, 1905, and died on April 11, 1970. He is known for his portrayals of middle-class American life and is considered one of the most representative figures in American literature of the 20th century. more
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