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• The Ginger Man

  J. P. Donleavy

  
  First published in Paris in 1955 and originally banned in America, J. P. Donleavy's first novel is now recognized the world over as a masterpiece and a modern classic of the highest order. Set in Ireland just after World War II, The Ginger Man is J. P. Donleavy's wildly funny, picaresque classic novel of the misadventures of Sebastian Dangerfield, a young American ne'er-do-well studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Dangerfield's appetite for women, liquor, and general roguishness is insatiable--and he satisfies it with endless charm. "Lusty, violent, wildly funny ... The Ginger Man is the picaresque novel to stop them all."--Dorothy Parker, Esquire
  
   

• The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  
  First published in 1844, this is Thackeray's earliest substantial work of fiction and perhaps his most original. The text is that of Saintbury's 1908 Oxford edition which incorporates Thackeray's revisions.
  
   

• A Singular Man

  J. P. Donleavy

  
  Mysteriously rich and desperately lonely, George Smith appears to be under attack from all quarters. His former wife and four horrible children are suing to get his money, and someone is sending him threatening letters. Despite some very elaborate precautions, he remains worried. So he builds a mausoleum in which to live.
  
   

• The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B.

  J.P. Donleavy

  
  "This romp of a novel is lush and lovely, bawdy and sad . . . the stuff of the passions and dreams of being alive."--The New York Times. A reprint of one of J.P. Donleavy's incredible works, it is "one of the most perfect love affairs in modern literature."
  
   

• Fairytale of New York

  J.P. Donleavy

  
  
   

• A Fairy Tale of New York (Donleavy, J. P.)

  J. P. Donleavy

  
  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 New York is with a funeral director, with whom he reluctantly takes employment to pay for the burial expenses. In the course of his duties he meets the beautiful Fanny Sourpuss over her millionaire husband's dead body. However, his over-enthusiastic handling of his first corpse lands him in court. Cornelius Christian wanders through the great sad cathedral that is New York, examining the human condition in all its comic pathos and lonely absurdity. Whether lingering in the Automat drinking from half empty coffee cups and stealing baked beans from the plates of customers who go looking for ketchup, or finding love on a street corner only to end up fighting his way out of a hooker's fists, Cornelius Christian, heroic anti-hero, sings of life's goodness in the wake of disaster.
  
   

• The Lady Who Liked Clean Restrooms: The Chronicle Of One Of The Strangest Stories Ever To Be Rumoured About Around New York

  J. P. Donleavy

  
  Not since The Gingerman has J.P. Donleavy succeeded in both delighting and irking his readers as he has with The Lady Who Like Clean Restrooms. This stylish novella tells the tale of Jocelyn Guenevere Marchantiere Jones, whose Scarsdale life comes to an abrupt end when her husband goes in search of a bit of "fresh flesh." Soon she is fending for herself in New York City, where finding a clean restroom will prove to be the least of her concerns.
  
  
   

• HISTORY OF THE GINGER MAN

  J. P. Donleavy

  
  This is the dramatic story of J. P. Donleavy's personal struggle to create and publish a book that became a twentieth-century masterpiece: The Ginger Man. It is literary history combined with Donleavy's autobiography - from his childhood in the Bronx, education at Catholic schools, service in the U.S. Navy, and travels, to his current life as proprietor of a landed estate in the midlands of Ireland. Trinity College in Dublin after World War II was a mecca for adventurous Americans who used the G.I. Bill as a passport to higher education. Among them were able-bodied seaman second class J. P. "Mike" Donleavy, fighter pilot George Roy Hill (now a celebrated Hollywood director), and naval yeoman Gainor Stephen Crist, a midwestern rara avis and model for the Ginger Man. Student life included degrees in debauchery; drunken brawls in Dublin pubs; comic capers with the playwright Brendan Behan; eccentric Anglo-Irish aristocrats; living on miraculous credit and in constant debt with plenty of time for the seduction of nice Catholic girls. Donleavy, impecunious and newly married, began to write The Ginger Man in a primitive isolated cottage at Kilcoole. He completed the book over a period of four years on two continents. The Ginger Man was rejected by nearly thirty-five American and British publishers. The book was finally published in Paris in 1955 by Maurice Girodias of the Olympia Press as a work of pornography. Twenty-five years of bitter litigation between Donleavy and Girodias followed, with Donleavy emerging triumphant as sole owner of Olympia and its copyrights, including that of The Ginger Man. Since its traumatic birth, The Ginger Man has become a contemporary classic, translated into many languages, with millions of copies sold throughout the world.
  
   

• The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman

  J. P. Donleavy

  
  His future is disastrous, his present indecent, his past divine. He Is Darcy Dancer, youthful squire of Andromeda Park, the great gray stone mansion inhabited by Crooks, the cross-eyed butler, and the sexy, aristocratic Miss Von B.
  
   

• A Singular Country

  J. P. Donleavy, Donleavy J. P.

  
  
   

• Are You Listening Rabbi Low

  J. P. Donleavy

  
  
   

• That Darcy, That Dancer, That Gentleman

  J. P. Donleavy

  
  
   

• Saddest Summer of Samuel S

  J.P. Donleavy

  
  
   

• Leila: Further in the Life and Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman (Donleavy, J. P.)

  J. P. Donleavy

  
  His future is disastrous, his present indecent, his past divine. He is Darcy Dancer, youthful squire of Andromeda Park, the great gray stone mansion inhabited by Crooks, the cross eyed butler, and the sexy, aristocratic Miss Von B. This sequel to The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman finds our hero falling in with decidedly low company — like the dissolute Dublin poet, Foxy Slattery, and Ronald Rashers, who absconds with the family silver — before falling head over heels in love with the lissome Leila.
  
   

• The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B

  J P Donleavy

  
  This novel, "as sad as it is hilarious, is Dublin in its heyday and London in its prime, and between, a Paris with all its pleasures."
  
   

• The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men

  Anatole Broyard, Jack Kerouac, Chandler Brossard, William Burroughs, Carl Solomon, Allen Ginsberg, J P Donleavy

  
  
   

• Cuento de Hadas en Nueva York (Pocket Edhasa; 8)

  J. P. Donleavy

  
  La muerte de su esposa sitúa a Cornelius Christian en una situación muy delicada: se ve obligado, sin ninguna experiencia previa, a entrar a trabajar en una empresa funeraria para sufragar los gastos de su entierro. Eso le llevará a enfrentarse a las más disparatadas situaciones. Un vértigo de intentos frustrados, miedo, maldades, encuentros eróticos con un toque de impulso hacia la muerte. Libro poético, explosivo, vertiginoso, trágico a la vez que irresistiblemente cómico. Una novela muy bien medida, que se atiene sólo a lo esencial, y dominada por una gran sentido del humor.

  The death of his wife places Cornelius Christian in a very difficult situation: he is forced to start working, without previous experience, in a funeral home to defray the expenses of her funeral. This will lead him to face the most crazy and hilarious situation

  
   

• The Ginger Man

  
  Complete and Unexpurgated Edition.
  
   

• The Lady Who Liked Clean Rest Rooms

  James Patrick Donleavy

  
  
   

• Leila: Further in the Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman

  J. P. Donleavy