{"product_id":"butterfield-8isbn-9780143107088","title":"BUtterfield 8","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe bestselling novel that became an Oscar-winning film starring Elizabeth Taylor about New York's speakeasy generation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A masterpiece of American fiction and a bestseller upon its publication in 1935, \u003ci\u003eBUtterfield 8 \u003c\/i\u003elays bare with brash honesty the unspoken and often shocking truths that lurked beneath the surface of a society still reeling from the effects of the Great Depression. One Sunday morning, Gloria wakes up in a stranger's apartment with nothing but a torn evening dress, stockings, and panties. When she steals a fur coat from the wardrobe to wear home, she unleashes a series of events that can only end in tragedy. Inspired by true events, this novel caused a sensation on its publication for its frank depiction of the relationship between a wild and beautiful young woman and a respectable, married man.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.“A man who knows exactly what he is writing about and has written it marvelously well.” —\u003cb\u003eErnest Hemingway\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Like Henry James, O’Hara could create a world where class and social structures are all-important but not openly discussed.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“O’Hara understood better than any other American writer how class can both reveal and shape character....  [His] genius was in his unerring precision in capturing the speech and the milieus of his characters, whether the setting was Pennsylvania, Hollywood, or New York.” \u003cb\u003e—Fran Lebowitz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"O'Hara occupies a unique position in our contemporary literature... He is the only American writer to whom America presents itself as a social scene in the way it once presented itself to Henry James, or France to Proust.\" \u003cb\u003e—Lionel Trilling, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An author I love is John O’Hara. . . . I think he’s been forgotten by time, but for dialogue lovers, he’s a goldmine of inspiration.” —\u003cb\u003eDouglas Coupland, \u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “One of the great novels of New York in the Depression . . . [O’Hara’s] novels of the mid-thirties are his classics, and they deserve to be much more famous than they are.” —\u003cb\u003eLorin Stein, editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, from the Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn O’Hara \u003c\/b\u003e(1905–1970) (1905-1970) was one of the most prominent American writers of the twentieth century. Championed by Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Dorothy Parker, he wrote seventeen novels, including \u003ci\u003eAppointment in Samarra\u003c\/i\u003e, his first; \u003ci\u003eBUtterfield 8\u003c\/i\u003e, which was made into a film starring Elizabeth Taylor; \u003ci\u003ePal Joey\u003c\/i\u003e, which was adapted into a Broadway musical as well as a film starring Frank Sinatra; and \u003ci\u003eTen North Frederick\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the National Book Award. He has had more stories published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e than anyone else in the history of the magazine. Born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, he lived for many years in New York and in Princeton, New Jersey, where he died.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302995677413,"sku":"NP9780143107088","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143107088.jpg?v=1730752680","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/butterfield-8isbn-9780143107088","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}