by John O'Hara · Ediciones Picazo · tapa dura · ISBN 9788436101669
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«Una historia de Filadelfia» is the novel by John O'Hara, published by Ediciones Picazo in hardcover (200 pages, in Spanish).
Lovey, daughter of a wealthy Philadelphia family, does not accept the life her surroundings have mapped out for her. After her father's death in a hunting accident, she throws herself into a scandalous life with playboy Sky Childs. When the American economy collapses at the end of the 1920s, a decision brings her back to the world she wanted to flee.
Novel included in the Elite collection, number 27. Translation by César de Montserrat of the English original «Lovey Childs: A Philadelphian's Story» (1969).
For readers of social criticism novels who want to learn about Philadelphia high society during the 1920s.
John Henry O'Hara was an American writer. He was one of America's most prolific writers of short stories, credited with helping to invent The New Yorker magazine short story style. He became a best-selling novelist before the age of 30 with Appointment in Samarra and BUtterfield 8. While O'Hara's legacy as a writer is debated, his work was praised by such contemporaries as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, and his champions rank him highly among the major under-appreciated American writers of the 20th century. Few college students educated after O'Hara's death in 1970 have discovered him, chiefly because he refused to allow his work to be reprinted in anthologies used to teach literature at the college level.
