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  ‘Despair is the word.’

  ‘Gee it’s true, that’s just, ha ha like what he said you might say … by the way, I’m Abigail.’

  J. P. Donleavy

  MEET MY MAKER THE MAD MOLECULE

  ‘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 jitter-buggings of an exasperated soul, with barracuda bites of lacerating humour to bring blood-red into the grey 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 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 SINGULAR MAN

  His giant mausoleum abuilding, George Smith, the mysterious man of money, lives in a world rampant with mischief, of chiselers and cheats. Having side-stepped slowly away down the little alleys of success he tiptoes through a luxurious, lonely life between a dictatorial Negress housekeeper and two secretaries, one of whom, Sally Tomson, the gay wild and willing beauty, he falls in love with.

  ‘George Smith is such a man as Manhattan’s subway millions have dreamed of being’ – Time Magazine

  ‘A masterpiece of writing about love’ – National Observer

  ‘… an utterly irresistible broth of a book’ – Daily Telegraph

  J. P. Donleavy

  A FAIRY TALE OF NEW YORK

  ‘Fantastically inventive … madly funny. He is an original and almost irresistible writer’ – Sunday Times

  ‘Cornelius Christian is J. P. Donleavy’s new hero, person, protagonist, figure-head, creature. He struts and weaves and shrugs and punches his way through the pages of A Fairy Tale of New York. I think he is Mr Donleavy’s best piece of man-making since Sebastian Dangerfield in the good old ginger days. The book is fast, funny and addictive’ – Robert Nye in the Guardian

  ‘Irony, farce, satire, and lyric’ – Spectator

  THE UNEXPURGATED CODE

  A Complete Manual of Survival and Manners

  No stone is left unturned in this ruthless guide to social etiquette, no left turn unstoned: even the most shameful and embarrassing occasions can be used to your advantage. With this book in your hand, Duchesses cease to appal, long-and well-lost friends to mystify: at a word, with Donleavy’s help, you can smash a rival’s social pretensions and vindicate your own with ease. Whether you’re puzzled by the meaning of life or merely lacking the basic human decencies, rest assured that you can reach the top, Socially Registered or not. For Donleavy shows you how!

 


 

  J. P. Donleavy, The Onion Eaters

 


 

 
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