Elizabeth Appleton is a novel by John O'Hara written in 1960 and first published in 1963.[1] The story is set mostly in Pennsylvania, and the time of the narrative stretches from the early 1930s to 1950. As in earlier novels, O'Hara minutely chronicles small-town life in America in the first half of the 20th century, especially its social and sexual mores.
The title character is a woman from a wealthy New York family who, at a young age, marries a scholar of modest means. They move to his hometown in Pennsylvania, where he becomes a history professor and later a college dean. Several years into the marriage, after having two children, she embarks on a passionate but extremely secret love affair with a wealthy and affable local man.
Commercial success
The novel appeared in Publishers Weekly's list of the top ten best-selling fiction works in the United States in the year 1963.[2]
In popular culture
In the first season tv-series Julia, Avis DeVoto is seen reading the book in the episode "Foie Gras".
References
↑Vidal, Gore (April 16, 1964). "Appointment with O'Hara". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
↑Hackett, Alice Payne and Burke, James Henry (1977). 80 Years of Best Sellers:1895 - 1975. New York: R.R. Bowker Company. p.189. ISBN0-8352-0908-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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