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.

[1] The screenwriter in the story is John Malloy, O'Hara's frequent fictional alter ego.

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