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Gibbsville, PA
the classic stories
By O'Hara, John & Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph & Higgins, George V.
- ISBN
- 978-0-88184-899-1
- Publisher
- New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., c1992.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on November 15, 1992
Like Thomas Hardy, who created his fictional Wessex out of his native Dorset, and William Faulkner, who used Lafayette County, Mississippi, as the basis for his imaginary Yoknapatawpha County, O'Hara transformed his hometown of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, and its surrounding anthracite coal region into one of literature's great fictional landscapes. Setting five novels and more than 50 stories in what he called his "Pennsylvani...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
