For 10 points, name this novel about the scheduled self-destruction of Julian English, the first novel of John O'Hara.
A minor character in this work disdainfully recalls a Bryn Mawr euphemism for losing one's virginity, being "off the sports list." It opens with Luther L. Fliegler debating whether or not to have sex with his wife, Irma, on Christmas day, and its main character's downfall begins with an incident involving an emptied vase of flowers being converted into the "biggest highball he had ever seen." Its original working title was "The Infernal Grove," and it depicts three days in the lives of a leading couple of Gibbsville, Pennsylvania. Dorothy Parker's introduction to Maugham's play Sheppey prompted its author to change this work's title to a legend about a jostled servant in a Baghdad marketplace, who flees to the title location only to be met by Death herself. For 10 points, name this novel about the scheduled self-destruction of Julian English, the first novel of John O'Hara.
A minor character in this work disdainfully recalls a Bryn Mawr euphemism for losing one's virginity, being "off the sports list.
{Appointment} in {Samarra}