4 results for '"J. P. Donleavy"'

An "excruciatingly funny" novel by the author of the classic The Ginger Man (Newsweek). From "a comic writer rivaling Waugh and Wodehouse", this is the story of George Smith (Life). Mysteriously rich...

A Fairy Tale of New York is a funny, lusty, and sad novel of comic genius. Returning from study abroad, Cornelius Christian enters customs with his luggage and his dead wife. His first encounter in...

First published in Paris in 1955, and originally banned in the United States, J. P. Donleavy's first novel is now recognized the world over as a masterpiece and a modern classic of the highest order...

Roger Boylan's first novel, Killoyle, established him as a brilliant successor to such Irish masters as Joyce, Beckett, and J. P. Donleavy. Now his new farce follows the hapless inhabitants of...