'In this book of short pieces Donleavy has given us the lyric poems to go with his epics. They are almost all elegies -- sad songs of decayed hope, bitter little jitterbuggings of an exasperated soul, with barracuda bites of lacerating humour he brings blood-red into the gray of fate. These stories and sketches move between Europe and America, New York and Dublin and London. America is always the spoiled paradise, the land of the curdled milk and maggoty honey. The place that used to get you in the end, but that now does it in the beginning.' Newsweek 'The stories are swift, imaginative, beautiful and funny, and no contemporary writer is better than J. P. Donleavy at his best.' The New Yorker
A Letter Marked Personal
J.P. Donleavy
bookThe Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman
J.P. Donleavy
bookSchultz
J.P. Donleavy
bookLeila: Further in the Life and Destinies of Darcy Dancer Gentleman
J.P. Donleavy
bookA Fairy Tale of New York
J.P. Donleavy
bookThe Onion Eaters
J.P. Donleavy
bookWrong Information is Being Given Out at Princeton
J.P. Donleavy
bookThe Unexpurgated Code
J.P. Donleavy
bookThe History of the Ginger Man: An Autobiography
J.P. Donleavy
bookA Singular Country
J.P. Donleavy
bookMeet My Maker the Mad Molecule
J.P. Donleavy
bookJ.P. Donleavy: An Author and his Image
J.P. Donleavy
book