ELIZABETH APPLETON (310 pp.)John O'HaraRandom House ($4.95).
Roughly four years ago, John O'Hara abandoned his long attempt to serve up the Great American novel in three-deck fictional sandwiches. It was a good thing, both for O'Hara and his admirers. For O'Hara sometimes seems to know too much about the minutiae of U.S. society for his own good as an artist. He is better in smaller compass. Since early 1960, he has brought out three good novellas, two normal-sized novels, a book of plays, two volumes of superlative short stories, and now Elizabeth Appleton, an...
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