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(1930s) Butterfield 8
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1930s Highlights
Books
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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Butterfield 8
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<p>(October 21, 1935)
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<p> The generation that stumbled into a slightly intoxicated
maturity in the 1920's found in F. Scott Fitzgerald a spokesman
who dramatized their emotional problems, made articulate their
aspirations, and told some excellent stories while doing so.
Last week the publication of John O'Hara's second novel made him
the strongest candidate among U.S. novelists for the part that
Fitzgerald has vacated by growing out of the ranks of the young.
A more impressive ambitions volume than Appointment in Samarra,
his first novel, Butterfield 8 suggest that John O'Hara is well
on his way to becoming the voice of the hangover generation that
awakened in the gray down of 1930. Writing principally of
speakeasy, country-club, fairly well-to-do crowds similar to
those Fitzgerald wrote about, he presents them as much less
tender, much more bitter, much more worried about money,
casualty frank in their acceptance of the more burial realities
of sexual experiences. And their stories be finds, almost
without exception, grim.</p>
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