Joseph B. `'Joe'` Chapin
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Ten North Frederick is a novel by John O'Hara, published by Random House in 1955. It tells the story of Joseph Chapin, an ambitious man who desires to become president of the United States, and his relationships with his patrician wife, two rebellious children, and mistress.
Ten North Frederick is a 1958 American drama film in CinemaScope written and directed by Philip Dunne and starring Gary Cooper. The screenplay is based on the 1955 novel of the same name by John O'Hara.
With Gary Cooper, Diane Varsi, Suzy Parker, Geraldine Fitzgerald. At his father's funeral, Joe Chapin thinks back over the last five years of his life, years of apparent political and personal failure dominated by a selfish and dissatisfied wife and eased only by alcohol.
Ten North Frederick. John O'Hara. 3.82. 829 ratings68 reviews. Three generations of the Chapin family, prominent citizens of Gibbsville, Pennsylvania, struggle with the prides and passions in this epic saga of the American experience. Genres Fiction Classics Historical Fiction Literature 20th Century American Novels. ...more. 408 pages, Hardcover.
A classic portrait of mid-century America by the writer whom Fran Lebowitz called “the real F. Scott Fitzgerald”. The novel follows the life of Joe Chapin, a small-town lawyer with ambitions to be president, and his conflicts with his wife, children, and mistress.
Jun 24, 2014 · With black wit and penetrating insight, Ten North Frederick stands with Richard Yates’ Revolutionary Road, Evan S. Connell’s Mr. Bridge and Mrs. Bridge, the stories of John Cheever, and Mad Men as a brilliant portrait of the personal and political hypocrisy of mid-century America.
Ten North Frederick. John O'Hara. Cresset Press, 1955 - Fiction - 400 pages. At her father's funeral, Ann Chapin thinks back over the last five years of his life in Gibbsville, Pennsylvania -...
