'O'Hara is the only American writer to whom America presents itself as a social scene in the way it once presented itself to Henry James, or France to Proust' The New York Times
When the beautiful, imperious and moneyed Grace Caldwell Tate wants something she goes after it, men included. Her affair scandalises Pennsylvania's elite and she must face the costs to her marriage and the man she really loves.
A bestseller on publication in 1949, A Rage to Live is a candid tale of idealists and libertines, tradesmen and crusaders, men of violence and goodwill, and women of fierce strength and tenderness.
- ISBN10 0248983822
- ISBN13 9780248983822
- Publish Date 1 March 1978 (first published 1 December 1949)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 June 1992
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage
- Imprint Barrie & Jenkins
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 480
- Language English