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´Superb... These thirty-two stories inhabit the Technicolor vernaculars of taxi drivers, barbers, paper pushers and society matrons... O´Hara was American fiction´s greatest eavesdropper, recording the everyday speech and tone of all strata of mid-century society´ Wall Street Journal

John O´Hara remains the great chronicler of American society, and nowhere are his powers more evident than in his portraits of New York´s so-called Golden Age. Unsparingly observed, brilliantly cutting and always on the tragic edge of epiphany, the stories collected here are among O´Hara´s finest work, and show why he still stands as the most-published short story writer in the history of the New Yorker.

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"You can binge on O´Hara´s collections in the way some people binge on Mad Men, and for some of the same reasons" Lorin Stein Paris Review

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