Pal Joey (novel)

Pal Joey
First ed. cover
AuthorJohn O'Hara
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
PublisherDuell, Sloan and Pearce
Publication date
1940 (first edition)
Media typePrint
Pages195 p.
OCLC653710

Pal Joey is a 1940 epistolary novel by John O'Hara,[1] which became the basis of the 1940 stage musical comedy and 1957 motion picture of the same name, with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart.[2][3] It was originally written as a series of episodic short stories in The New Yorker in the late 1930s.[4]

  1. ^ Bower, Anne (2014). Epistolary Responses: The Letter in Twentieth-Century American Fiction and Criticism. University of Alabama Press p. 13. ISBN 978-0-8173-5814-3.
  2. ^ Lahr, John (December 28, 2008). "Bewitched And Bothered". The New Yorker. Retrieved November 11, 2019.
  3. ^ Grauke, Kevin (December 2, 2016). "John O'Hara's 'Stories': Much-needed collection of local novelist's fiction". Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved November 11, 2019.
  4. ^ Bruccoli, Matthew J. (1975). The O'Hara Concern: A Biography of John O'Hara. University of Pittsburgh Press pp. 149-151. ISBN 978-0-8229-7471-0.

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