John O\'Hara\'s greatest accomplishment is available in a handsome newly revised one-volume edition. The famous Gibbsville stories, more than fifty of them-include such stunners as \"The Doctor\'s Son,\" \"Imagine Kissing Pete,\" \"Fatimas and Kisses,\" \"The Cellar Domain,\" and \"The Bucket of Blood.\" Again, O\'Hara\'s Pennsylvania Protectorate, as he called it-in reality, the coal region of his hometown, Pottsville, in Schuylkill County-comes to socially and sexually complicated life. Here are the miners in the company towns, the country club set, the shopkeepers, the bartenders, the barbers, and the collegians. It is a world as varied, vibrant, and complete as Faulkner\'s Yoknapatawphna County or Thomas Wolfe\'s Altamount. Presented in this Book-of-the-Month Club Selection are four decades of the best work by the author who Bennett Cerf declared one of America\'s most underrated writers.
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