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O’Hara. John. Hope of Heaven. First Edition. 1938. Book and dust jacket are both in very good minus condition—endpapers have darkened; jacket shows fraying near edges, soiling to the back cover; and a ¼-inch chip to the upper spine.
When Billy Wilder wrote the opening scenes for Sunset Boulevard, one wonders if he was subconsciously recalling this John O’Hara novel from a decade earlier. The narrators in both are screenwriters who speak in the same foreboding, matter-of-fact way. The book is O’Hara’s first set in Los Angeles, and it mirrors his own life—he was living at the Garden of Allah and working at Paramount. The Hollywood and Vine-themed dust jacket is an anomaly; most O’Hara titles lack illustration.
“Maybe I am not the man to tell this story, but if I don’t tell it, no one else will, so here goes.”
--John O’Hara
When Billy Wilder wrote the opening scenes for Sunset Boulevard, one wonders if he was subconsciously recalling this John O’Hara novel from a decade earlier. The narrators in both are screenwriters who speak in the same foreboding, matter-of-fact way. The book is O’Hara’s first set in Los Angeles, and it mirrors his own life—he was living at the Garden of Allah and working at Paramount. The Hollywood and Vine-themed dust jacket is an anomaly; most O’Hara titles lack illustration.
“Maybe I am not the man to tell this story, but if I don’t tell it, no one else will, so here goes.”
--John O’Hara
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