A writer who never aspired to great fame, but took a worthy place among the best American novelists, such as Hemingway and Fitzgerald. Why? Is it because true talent is tested by time? One of the most striking novels by John O'Hara, which formed the basis of a wonderful film with Elizabeth Taylor, who received her first Oscar for the role of Gloria. The story of the hunted, spiritually crippled beauty Gloria Wenders , whose only entertainment is chance encounters with unfamiliar wealthy men. This book still reads as if it were written yesterday, perhaps because John O'Hara does not embellish or romanticize his complex, multifaceted characters and their complex, contradictory relationships...