Finished Mo 11/23/15
This is one of my books that I bought at the library book sale on Sa 6/15/96. It is three novellas by O'Hara called, SERMONS AND SODA-WATER.
Jim Malloy is a newspaperman and 'media flack' who wrote obituaries. The novel demonstrates how little these pieces actually tell about the person.
He's looking back at the interaction he had many years ago with an actress, Charlotte Sears.
She's a very smart and knowledgeable actress who is involved with a corrupt financier, Thomas Rodney Hunterden.
Malloy is her driver and handles publicity. She 'fills him in' on what is really going on in the industry.
The end of the novel concerns a party in which Malloy tells Hunterden what he thinks of him and Charlotte leaves with Hunterden. Although Malloy has been drinking, Hunterden and Sears drive back to NYC and Hunterden is killed and Sears is disfigured.
The book is a good description of The Rich in the 1930's and a cold and unflinching look at what the entertainment industry was like.
I'll probably read the other two selections in the trilogy. Each novel is only one hundred pages or less.
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