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Dearly Departed Books This is the first novel I think I’ve read that most sharply drew me in mind to David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, with its maximalist detail and sprawling cast of third-per. “Yes, I guess I’ll go back to the bank. “Very,” said Mike Slattery. If I couldn’t figure Joe out, I’d have one hell of a time with Edith. 1. Old Mr. English, Doctor English’s father, that is. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. To read [his Pennsylvania] novels is to enter an entire world. One or two, putting it mildly.”. TEN NORTH FREDERICK was an enormous bestseller at mid-century and also won John O'Hara the National Book Award (one of the few great prizes in life he wanted that he actually got). Many other people at all levels of the social ladder are portrayed as well, and what they do and say to one another is often shocking. The spine may show signs of wear. Condition: Good. The book has very little plot, but the characters are so deeply developed that you feel as if you know them--from their likes and dislikes, personality quirks and even sexual proclivities. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. The sum of $100,000 was to be paid to the son, Joseph Benjamin Chapin Junior, and a like sum to the daughter, Ann Chapin. He had to force himself to be patient and tolerant of other people. This is a rather wonderful novel encompassing decades in the life of the central figure, Joe Chapin, a well-to-do Pennsylvania lawyer. A man with two canes who was new to her. Joe’s mother was my aunt, my father’s sister. An admiral. Binding cracking. Possible clean ex-library copy, with their stickers and or stamp(s). | Contact this seller From Here to Eternity: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels). Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. Mass Market Paperback. (1985), ISBN 10: 0881841730ISBN 13: 9780881841732, From: | Contact this seller Joe has political ambitions but not the political skill to realize them. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. A novel of decline, a genre for which I have a strange fascination. I'd not read O'Hara before, but I will read more. The spine may show signs of wear. I suppose I’m as womanly a woman as the word could mean. This is a masterpiece by O'Hara, with few wrong notes, and winner of a National Book Award. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less. Binding cracking. Condition: GOOD. It tells the story of Joe Chapin, an ambitious man who desires to become president of the United States, and his relationships with his patrician wife, two rebellious children, and mistress. From: . Joe and his wife secretly detest each other. ", Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2019. The town was accustomed to big funerals; they were no novelty. Start by marking “Ten North Frederick” as Want to Read: Error rating book. About this Item: Random House. (Toledo, OH, U.S.A.), About this Item: Bantam. The characters are carefully crafted, the turn of the century town is well portrayed, the brokenness is shown with nuance. Book is in Used-Good condition. Bantam, NY Another novel that is a strong mix of what I liked and didn't like. Light rubbing wear to cover, spine and page edges. Mr. McHenry. Random House Publishing Group. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. I could not stop reading it, however, and have been recommending it to almost everyone. She had never noticed before that Johnny Loftus and Frank McNaughton were almost exactly the same height. It's a great, fun read. And as to Edith—I wonder.”. Please try again. But as his daughter looks back on his life, a different man emerges: one in conflict with his ambitious and shrewish wife, terrified that the misdeeds of his children will dash his political dreams, and in love with a model half his age. (1955), ISBN 10: 0394448146ISBN 13: 9780394448145, From: I was surprised to find that the core of the film was not the main body of the novel, but only covered the final thirty pages or so. Unknown Binding. Editor Hooker, the admiral, Banker Jenkins, Superintendent Johnson—they were not so much friends of Joe Chapin’s as fellow members of committees. A town run by the Republican Party, where old money was really old money dating back to before the Civil War, and the Jazz Age that F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about in New York never materialized in this. Published by The details of her wealth were known to only a few persons, who were not likely to discuss those details with others not privileged to have the information. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At the funeral Peg Slattery and her daughter Monica sat where they could be seen. Seller Inventory # 123618386. But along the way he had learned a thing or two about Joe Chapin, and what he had learned contradicted the notion that Edith Chapin was no more than a head on a virginal torso. More information about this seller Carroll & Graf Pub, 1985. It's a great, fun read. No outside interests, no hobbies, really. “To an Italian fellow that played in an orchestra. He is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, a National Magazine Award–nominated literary critic for Harper’s Magazine, a former senior editor of The Paris Review, and the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. I have no idea what sort of thing I’ll do, but I imagine anything I do will involve working with other women, and I don’t want to start with any more handicaps than I have already.”, “You have no handicap in whatever you do,” said Hooker. The spine may show signs of wear. He stood beside his heavily veiled mother, close to her in body, but his cold blue eyes followed the plane’s exercises with a calm curiosity, and the set of his mouth told nothing. Random House Publishing Group. Soft cover. Henry Laubach called up this morning and ordered a thousand cards, about the size of a postcard, with my small tribute to Joe printed on them. The clergyman talked on, pronouncing his words in the same manner as some of her old schoolmates at Manhattanville; the New York ones. Possible ex library copy, with all the markings/stickers of that library. But I think I ought to see Mr. Hooker. The new Superintendent of Schools, Mr. Johnson, had boned up in his Who’s Who for his information (and they were all in it, except Whitney Hofman and Mr. Jenkins from the bank), but he never became quite certain which was David L. Harrison and which was J. Frank Kirkpatrick. They made him an instructor in code work at one of their secret camps.”, “Virginia somewhere,” said Slattery. “I know. | Contact this seller Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Wasn’t he at Yale about then?”. more popular than now. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. But below the surface there is trouble. “They may know about it, but they’d have one hell of a time proving it on any record,” said Slattery. Her father. Mike, where did you go?”, “Villanova to college and Penn to law school.”, “Well, I guess Villanova’s all right, but Penn, I hear that stinks too. Love books from this era. That was David L. Harrison, a partner in J. P. Morgan and Company,” said Pflug. The writing style felt old, out-dated. More information about this seller They had not even done the work of digging the Chapin grave; they were only waiting for the removal of the floral tributes so that they could begin digging to prepare another grave in another plot. (Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.), About this Item: Random House Publishing Group, 1955. Monica finished her inspection of the women’s hats; women were not likely to wear anything interesting to a funeral anyway. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. | Contact this seller “Tell me about the son. Mr. Johnson, the new Superintendent of Schools. Before I knew it, I was embroiled in the lifestyles of the rich and locally famous. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. You kept clean wherever soap and water could reach. Something went wrong. From another man the details that Joe Chapin felt free to discuss with Arthur McHenry would have been distasteful, but there was a kind of arrogant and trusting innocence in Joe Chapin’s revelations to Arthur McHenry, and Arthur McHenry respected the innocence. I’ve always thought there was a great deal more. More information about this seller Dr. English. The horns of protest during the twenty-minute jam were not able to drown out the tolling bells of Trinity. Otherwise a clean, tight copy with no spine creases. Joe has ambitions to be president of the United States, his hoity-toity wife Edith has two sex secrets she's keeping from her husband (and finally confesses one of them late in life), daughter Ann is hustled off to boarding school after a threesome sex incident in a delivery truck, which is only the first of her sexcapades that embarrass her family, and son Joby is a rebellious mess--at least in the eyes of his parents. (Toledo, OH, U.S.A.), About this Item: Bantam. The man who might have done more than he did to expedite Joe Chapin’s ambition was not a fellow to waste love on anyone who would not return it. Solid binding. The shiny limousines and the many strange chauffeurs and the low-number license plates and the stars and flags of the military motors were enough to make a man have some respect for Joe Chapin. Random House. Ten North Frederick is a novel by John O'Hara, published by Random House in 1955. The butcher was not in attendance at the funeral of Joseph Benjamin Chapin, which took place in Trinity Church. I am so used to living the kind of life I’ve led that now, at a time like this, it’s one advantage of having a naturally retiring disposition. VG+ condition. Library House Internet Sales From: “Thank you. She waited until she heard his step on the second-floor landing, then went to the speaking tube and blew the whistle. Dan A. Domike

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