Hope of Heaven
{{Short description|1938 Novel by John O'Hara}}
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| author = John O'Hara
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| genre = Fiction
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| publisher = Harcourt, Brace & World
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| published = 1938
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| pages = 182
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Hope of Heaven is a 1938 novel by John O'Hara. It tells the story of struggling screenwriter in his mid-30s, living in Hollywood, who becomes besotted with an idealistic, younger woman, who doesn't fully reciprocate. Her estranged father, in town on business, complicates matters. The book is considered a work of hard-boiled noir.{{Cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/john-ohara/hope-of-heaven/|title=HOPE OF HEAVEN | Kirkus Reviews}} The screenwriter in the story is John Malloy, O'Hara's frequent fictional alter ego.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/The-cars-the-girls-the-sun-John-O-Hara-got-2702005.php|title=The cars, the girls, the sun -- John O'Hara got California life|date=31 January 2005}}{{cite journal |last1=Abshire |first1=Kreg |title=At Home in Hollywood: Hope of Heaven as Cultural History, Autobiography, and Fiction |journal=Colby Quarterly |date=1 September 1996 |volume=32 |issue=3 |url=https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/cq/vol32/iss3/4/ }}