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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19970901
Author:Jonathan Yardley

Improbable though it may seem, there is reason to believe that the fiction of John O'Hara, long neglected if not given up for dead, may be making a comeback. So his publisher would have us believe. Three years ago Random House reinstalled his most famous novel, "Appointment in Samarra," in the Modern Library; last year it followed suit with "The Novellas of John O'Hara"; now it has added "A Rage to Live" to the library's catalogue, where O'Hara is sandwiched between Frank Norris and Eugene O'Neill.

That's heady company for the doctor's son from the Pennsylvania coal-mining town called ...

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