BUtterfield 8
(2013)
Fiction
Book
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FICTION/O'HARA,J
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Details
PUBLISHED
New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2013
DESCRIPTION
274 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780143124689 (hardcover), 0143124684 (hardcover)
LANGUAGE
English
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"A bestseller upon its publication in 1935, BUtterfield 8 was inspired by a news account of the discovery of the body of a beautiful young woman washed up on a Long Island beach. Was it an accident, a murder, a suicide? The circumstances of her death were never resolved, but O'Hara seized upon the tragedy to imagine the woman's down-and-out life in New York City in the early 1930s."--P. [4] of cover