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Appointment in Samarra

Appointment in Samarra

O'Hara, John

Paperback

Series: Cletham Classics, Book 3

Classic FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1971559482
ISBN13: 9781971559483
Publisher: Eris
Published: Sep 29 2026
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.71 Width: 4.25 Depth: 7.00
Language: English
It begins with a drink thrown in a moment of anger--public, irreversible, and instantly understood. From that point on, everything closes in. Business relationships sour, social standing slips, money tightens, and the small evasions that once held life together stop working. What follows unfolds over just a few days, with a precision that makes every misstep feel both accidental and inevitable. Appointment in Samarra is a novel about pressure and about how little it takes for a life built on appearances to come apart. O'Hara writes without flourish and without relief. He offers no grand catastrophe, only a sequence of recognisable choices, each narrowing the field until there is nowhere left to go.

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