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	Appointment in Samarra Summary & Essays - John O'Hara
		Appointment in Samarra, John O’Hara’s debut novel, is situated in the small Pennsylvania town of Gibbsville, a fictional place whose occupants and mores mirror those of O’Hara’s hometown of Pottsville, Pennsylvania.
		Ironically, the things that earned Appointment in Samarra accolades upon its publication are the very things that wrought harsher criticism of his subsequent works, according to Fran Lebowitz in her introduction to the 1994 edition of the novel.
		She writes, “[Appointment in Samarra] is the [book] generally considered to be his best, particularly by his detractors who tend rather showily to concede it and who almost invariably employ its virtues as a weapon with which to smite the rest of his work.”
	www.enotes.com /pass?notes=appointment-samarra&typeID=59 (397 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Tragedy Of Manners
		My copy of "Appointment in Samarra" is the 1953 Modern Library edition, and I probably read it as soon as I got it, perhaps as a Christmas present from my father, an ardent O'Hara fan.
		All of which is to say that he was interested in the warp and woof of American society, that he was a novelist of manners, and that his prose was lean while in dialogue he, like Lardner, "wrote down speech as it is spoken truly," which was still something of a novelty in the 1930s.
		"Appointment in Samarra" indeed has its pleasures, but if it is the best of O'Hara's books -- as probably it is -- then his life's achievement, though massive in size, was limited in art and craft.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A6314-2005Apr20?language=printer (1506 words)

	Appointment In Samarra \| This Is Rumor Control
		The U.S. attack, this source added, had actually attracted a "flood" of foreign fighters into Samarra who "arrive in groups of fifty at a time." These foreigners are adding their numbers to local resistance groups composed primarily of ex-Iraqi military troops and Ba'athists.
		The source also said that Samarra's residents are "furious" at the Iraqi National Guard and U.S. forces for failing to distinguish between innocent citizens and insurgents.
		He said that ordinary citizens were being arrested by the Iraqi National Guard for criticizing the random shelling of their city or for protesting the aggressive searching of their homes: "Ordinary citizens are increasingly sympathizing with the insurgents" in "the face of this aggression," he said.
	www.thisisrumorcontrol.org /node/764 (893 words)

	Samarra, Iraq
		Samarra, about 124 km north of Baghdad, is one of the four Islamic Holy Cities of Iraq, and is considered as the largest ancient city known in the whole World with its majestic ruins which extends about 9 km horizontally and 34 km vertically along the eastern bank of the Tigris.
		Despite the short sojourn of the Abbasid Caliphate in Samarra, the city's artistic, literary, and scientific splendors have remained a legend in Arab history.
		Samarra was penetrated by a very long axial street called Al-Adham (the Greatest), at the end of which, 22 km away north of the modern city, are the remnants of a large mosque still mostly extant, with its beautiful courtyard and a small 19 m high spiral minaret.
	www.atlastours.net /iraq/samarra.html (765 words)

	Belmont Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The objective of the operation was to establish government control after the city council had been disbanded under insurgent threat.
		Samarra is a city of 200,000 on the Tigris river about 120 kilometers north-northwest of Baghdad.
		This is what American and Iraqi forces are achieving in Samarra; this is what can be done in October that could not be achieved in April, 2004.
	belmontclub.blogspot.com /2004/10/appointment-in-samarra-and.html (959 words)

	PlanetPapers - Appointment in Samarra
		Samarra has long been a city plagued with death, from the time of this ancient tale to Maugham’s retelling and still today.
		The tale closes with Death speaking, “I was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.” As if tying the loose ends of a noose, Maugham ties the last word of the title, Samarra, with the closing word of the story, Samarra.
		“Appointment in Samarra” is too often interpreted as simply a tale of fate or destiny.
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/5850.php (671 words)

	iraq, W. Somerset Maugham, Appointment in Samarra - FCNL
		It was fitting that the advancing Americans found the missing prisoners near Samarra - as if they had unknowingly had an appointment with destiny that would instantly transform the lives of all involved.
		Sunday's rescue recalls a short tale retold by British author W. Somerset Maugham in 1933, "Appointment in Samarra." In the story, a servant begs to borrow his master's horse to flee Baghdad.
		It might seem so, for arguably, had a different choice had been made by leaders, then armies would not move, countries would not be bombed, and combatants and noncombatants would not bump Death and remind her that she and they had an appointment in Samarra.
	www.fcnl.org /issues/int/sup/iraq_samarra_smith.htm (739 words)

	Books : Appointment in Samarra: A Novel (Vintage) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Appointment in Samarra brilliantly captures the personal politics and easy bitterness of small-town life.
		It is John O’Hara’s crowning achievement, and a lasting testament to the keen social intelligence of a major American novelist.
		I picked up Appointment in Samarra hoping to find some connection with the war in Iraq or with Somerset Maugham's very short story of the same name.
	www.digit.info /amazon/amazon_products_feed.cgi?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=0375719202 (600 words)

	Writing for Webheads: Appointment in Samara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		I will go to Samarra and there Death will not find me. The merchant lent him his horse, and the servant mounted it, and he dug his spurs in its flanks and as fast as the horse could gallop he went.
		I was astonished to see him in Bagdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.
		But he did not understand he was on his way to meet Death in Samarra.
	www.homestead.com /prosites-vstevens/files/efi/ying_samarra.htm (299 words)

	Samarra - IRIN Middle East \| Middle East \| IRAQ \| IRAQ: Hundreds of families (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Samarra is located on the east bank of the middle Tigris in Iraq, 125 km north of Samarra is now one of the largest archaeological sites in the world.
		In Samarra, five Iraqis were killed when an apparent suicide bomb intended for US convoys blew up, said police.
		Samarra is a town in northern Iraq, situated on the eastern bank of the Tigris River Samarra's most famous landmark is the Great Mosque of Samarra,
	dealtutor.com /datt/samarra.htm (560 words)

	The New York Times: Book Review Search Article
		He is the omniscient narrator and the dispassionate chronicler; he will unleash a volley of newspaper headlines or brute facts about coal mining in Pennsylvania or shopping in New York; he will disappear into a long, intimate soliloquy, or into pages of dialogue, fine-tuned to each character's temper and needs.
		His first novel was "Appointment in Samarra," set in Gibbsville, Pa., just after the stock market crash.
		"Butterfield 8" is messier than "Appointment in Samarra," but it hews to the same basic structure.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/books/072098ohara-samarra.html (883 words)

	The March For Justice
		It seems that resistance struggles are fated to keep a tragic appointment in a metaphorical (recently, literal) Samarra, when insurgency objectives require attacks on invading forces and inevitably cause civilian deaths.
		Civilians died in the attacks, although, the US military claims that most of their apparently inflated count of fifty-four dead were guerrillas.
		The Samarra incident reminds me of a nationally infamous event in the Italian Resistance against the Nazi occupation of Rome.
	www.marchforjustice.com /12.5.03.Samarra.php (1353 words)

	Observer \| Appointment in Samarra
		I wish Shawcross could have passed through Samarra, where I'm reading his book, before submitting his manuscript.
		Samarra is but one piece in Iraq's mosaic, close to the spider hole in which Saddam was captured.
		The twist is that, in the text I am reading, the resistance fighters for whom the Americans search are either 'revanchists' loyal to Saddam, or else international Islamic terrorists.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4826015-102280,00.html (1290 words)

	Amazon.ca: Appointment in Samarra: a Novel: Books: John O'Hara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It would be easy to dismiss "Appointment in Samarra" as insignificant when compared to other, more well known literature.
		I'm not completely sure what to make of a side story involving some petty mobsters, but I assume their intrusion into the fabric of this East coast society is meant as yet one more example of the loss of security from which these people felt by rights they would be sheltered.
		There is no reason not to read "Appointment in Samarra." It won't take up much of your time, and I promise you won't ever be bored by it.
	www.amazon.ca /Appointment-in-Samarra-a-Novel/dp/0375719202 (1769 words)

	Wanniski.com
		Hackworth posted it at his website, which is devoted to commentary on the Pentagon and the war.
		Here is the text of the soldier's letter, which sheds some light on what happened at Samarra, but is not conclusive.
		This is the most significant contact we have had to date in the city of Samarra.
	www.wanniski.com /PrintPage.asp?TextID=3106 (1164 words)

	The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Getting Junior's Goat
		Bush is reminiscent of the protagonist of "Appointment in Samarra," by John O'Hara - Julian English, the son of a WASP-y, aristocratic, renowned, ineffectual father.
		Bristling with filial tension and nurturing the chip on his privileged shoulder, the son refuses to follow in the proper father's footsteps and instead engages in, as John Updike put it, "impulsive bellicosity," falling into a self-destructive spiral that starts when he throws a drink into an ally's face at the club.
		But, it turns out, their appointment is not for Baghdad on that day, but for Samarra that night.
	www.nytimes.com /2004/10/07/opinion/07dowd.html?ex=1254888000&en=9e205cf423efa322&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland (800 words)

	t r u t h o u t - Appointment in Samarra: An Eyewitness Account
		There were a lot of nasty places to be in Samarra last week after U.S. and Iraqi forces began their assault early Friday morning, but one of the nastiest was with the platoon led by Lieutenant Ryan Purdy.
		The scene in Samarra was similar to those anywhere in Iraq in which soldiers have had to shoot into cities.
		In one intersection, the body of a rebel lay in pieces, torn apart by 25-mm cannon fire, while a mother hurried by holding her toddler by the hand.
	www.truthout.org /docs_04/100504C.shtml (2415 words)

	Free Essay Odipeus vs Appointment in Samarra
		The destiny of Oedipus and the servant is foreseen.
		Upon returning from an errand for a merchant, the servant in “The Appointment in Samarra” tells him: “When I was in the marketplace I was jostled by a woman in the crowd and when I turned I saw it was Death that jostled me” (page 4, lines 3 and 4).
		The servant in “The Appointment in Samarra” and Oedipus in “Oedipus the King” fulfill their destiny by living their lives just as fate has determined.
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=26355 (995 words)

	Language Log: Stress and death in Samarra
		Because of the ambush and subsequent firefight in central Iraq yesterday, the news has been full of mentions of the Iraqi town whose name is spelled "Samarra" in English.
		Then again, Mohamed Maamouri supports the final-stress pronunciation that neither announcer used: "According to what I know, the pronunciation is /samar~A'/ with the stress on the last long vowel and with possible deletion of the final glottal stop." Mohamed has visited Samarra (in the 1970s), and so he has some direct personal evidence.
		The first time that I ever had occasion to pronounce this word, if only to myself, was when I was 12 or 13, reading John O'Hara's novel Appointment in Samarra.
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/000170.html (660 words)

	Samarra
		Samarra's 17th-century, golden-domed mosque complex, sacred to Shiite Muslims as the burial site of the 10th and 11th imams and the site of the disappearance of the 12th (“hidden”) imam, was devastated by a terrorist bombing in 2006.
		Appointment in Samarra: Western strategic thought and the culture of risk.
		Remarks on Samarra and the archaeology of large cities.(Focus On Islam I)
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0843319.html (256 words)

	ekathimerini.com \| Appointment in Samarra
		The servant, in trying to escape, had submitted to destiny as surely as an insect would entangle itself in the strands of a web in which it will be trapped and eaten by a spider.
		This story sprang to mind with the recent updating of the «appointment» in Samarra: The bomb attack which destroyed one of the most important Shi'ite shrines, the golden-domed Askariya mosque, on February 22.
		That would be a fitting variation on the theme of the «appointment in Samarra,» in which those who set out to harm the Shi'ites turned into prey themselves.
	www.ekathimerini.com /4dcgi/_w_articles_columns_100024_13/03/2006_67388 (774 words)

	Amazon.de: Appointment in Samarra: English Books: John O'Hara,John Updike (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The big fish are Julian English and his wife Caroline, leaders of the country-club set in Prohibition-era Gibbsville, Pennsylvania.
		Julian is a Cadillac dealer, making Appointment an odd prefiguration of Updike's Rabbit series.
		Appointment in Samarra is very much superior as O'Hara's characters contain a passion that Hemmingway could not or would not create.
	www.amazon.de /Appointment-in-Samarra-John-OHara/dp/0394711920 (792 words)

	Dan Smith: Appointment in Samarra
		How fitting that we found our missing prisoners near Samarra — as if they had unknowingly had an appointment with destiny that would instantly transform the lives of all involved.
		That rescue recalls “Appointment in Samarra,” a short tale retold in 1933 by British author W. Somerset Maugham.
		But there is a far larger question about Iraq in the context of Maugham’s story: who bears moral responsibility for setting in motion a train of events in which a multitude — armies and even whole nations — suddenly bump into Death and are threatened by her gaze.
	www.bu.edu /globalbeat/syndicate/smith050503.html (728 words)

	Books by John O'Hara
		"Appointment in Samarra" tells a story of class and social restraints in Gibbsville, PA (a town quite obviously based on Pottsville) during the 1920's.
		Coal region old-timers will tell you that when this book came out it was quite scandalous, particularly because of the thinly disguised references to real people and places of the time.
		Ernest Hemingway said 'If you want to read a book by a man who knows exactly what he is writing about and has written it marvellously well, read Appointment in Samarra'.
	www.coalregion.com /Amazon/ohara.html (276 words)

	Appointment in Samarra - Michael Evans - Quadrant Magazine
		Appointment in Samarra - Michael Evans - Quadrant Magazine
		Ultimately, the drive by Western elites to risk-manage the shape of war in the future puts one in mind of Somerset Maugham's unforgettable fable "Appointment in Samarra", about the Arab servant who, in the market of Baghdad, encounters the shrouded figure of Death.
		The latter beckons to him, and the servant, terror-stricken, flees home and entreats his master to lend him a fast horse so that he can ride to Samarra in order to escape his fate.
	www.quadrant.org.au /php/article_view.php?article_id=746 (3877 words)

	June03 Appointment in Samarra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		hose in the regime of Saddam Hussein have kept Death busy by keeping their appointments, which for them became predestined at the start of the war.
		By April 9, the 21st day of the war, it was obvious to everyone—apparently including the regime's chief propagandist, Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, who failed to appear and deliver his tirades of disinformation—that the war was moving into a post-Saddam phase.
		The family home is in a city named Tikrit, little more than 100 miles from Baghdad and very near the ancient and storied Samarra.
	www.mca-marines.org /leatherneck/June03AppointmentInSamarra.htm (2182 words)

	xymphora: Dis-appointment in Samarra
		It seems extremely likely that (or here) the attack on the religious shine at Samarra was the work of those attempting to cause a civil war in Iraq leading to its destruction as a unified country.
		An eyewitness report confirms Americans were in control of the area when the bombs were set.
		The Yinon plan - one also favored by parts of the American establishment including Leslie Gelb - of breaking Israel's possible enemies into small, unthreatening statelets, continues.
	xymphora.blogspot.com /2006/02/dis-appointment-in-samarra.html (308 words)

	Appointment in Samarra
		This - whatever it was -- was the "battle" of Samarra and it fits what I think of as a new version of the "Vietnam analogy" in which the whole of that endless war now seems to pass before your eyes in seconds.
		It's clear that the ambushers were familiar with the routes and the times of the convoys to the banks and may have had information from within the banks themselves.
		But it seems that, though I meant to go elsewhere, I had my own appointment in Samarra.
	www.ccmep.org /2003_articles/Iraq/120303_appointment_in_samarra.htm (2880 words)

	The Blog \| Al Eisele: Terrorists' Appointment in Samarra: The Civil War in Iraq \| The Huffington Post
		The attack on the famous Shiite mosque in Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad, touched off reprisals by Shiites as at least five Sunni mosques in Baghdad and two in the southern city of Basrah were attacked.
		Even as Iraq's most revered Shiite cleric, the aging Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, appeared on state-run television in the holy city of Najaf to condemn the attack in Samarra and call for restraint, Iraqi soldiers were deployed to Sunni neighborhoods in Baghdad to prevent further sectarian violence.
		The terrorists' appointment in Samarra came on the heels of another deadly car bomb explosion on Tuesday as two dozen people were killed and nearly 30 wounded at a public market in a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad, and dozens more in other violence in other cities.
	www.huffingtonpost.com /al-eisele/terrorists-appointment-i_b_16146.html (1626 words)

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