A Letter Marked Personal is J.P. Donleavy's last novel, completed in 2007. Set in New York, it relates the interior monologue of forty-eight-year-old Nathan Langriesh Johnson, the founder of a successful lingerie company.
Kronika jedné z nejzvláštnějších událostí, o kterých se kdy v New Yorku povídalo. Rozsahem novela je brilantní ukázkou jemnější linie americké postmoderny. Vypráví příběh ženy, které se ve čtyřiceti letech stalo to, co potkává mnoho lidí v tomto věku – opustí ji životní druh. Hrdinka se s tím zpočátku vyrovnává se ctí, ale postupem času upadá do podivné strnulosti a čím dál větší materiální bídy, jako by se tím chtěla dotknout svědomí muže, který ji nechal na holičkách. Ten sice zůstává chladný, ale osud se na dámu, jež měla ráda čisté záchodky, náhle usměje z toho nejnečekanějšího úhlu.
In Charlotte, einer Provinzstadt in North Carolina, hat man es mit dem Gesetz noch nie so genau genommen. Nur zwei ebenso unbestechliche wie attraktive Frauen sorgen für Recht und Ordnung: Deputy Chief Virginia West und Chief Judy Hammer. Als eine Serie brutaler Morde die Stadt erschüttert, gerät der schwelende Konflikt zwischen Polizei und Stadt zu einer lebensgefährlichen Zerreißprobe.
The dramatic story of J.P. Donleavy's personal struggle to publish a book that became a twentieth-century masterpiece
In the third part of the series, Darcy is heartbroken over his lost love, Leila, and to compensate, entertains a string of unsuitable partners and throws a grand ball, through which all the Darcy characters parade
The bestselling author of The Ginger Man writes of his own life and his Ireland--an island he adores, but of which he can still be wittily critical--in a volume beautifully illustrated with his own, previously unpublished, photographs.
Even Donleavy himself is reluctant to categorize this book, hinting that perhaps it is still fiction. It's most often found listed as nonfiction, however. A guide to social climbing and survival in the asphalt jungle as only Donleavy could write. Not for the easily offended and wonderfully about as non-politically correct as could be. Also rife with illustrations by the author. Humor, Literary Studies, Social Studies
Dell Publishing Company, (a Delta Book) [Published 1972]. Paper covers, 442 pp. Includes several nice b&w photos of the productions by Lewis Morley. [From back cover] Here are gathered in a single volume four plays by of the finest and most touching comic writers of our time (London Times), based on the author's own works. The plays are The Ginger Man, Fairy Tales of New York, A Singular Man and The Saddest Summer of Samuel S. The productions have garnered excellent of The Ginger Man, the London Daily Express "A bawdy, blasphemous, rich, ragged, monstrous masterpiece"; Kenneth Tynan wrote about Fairy Tales of New York . . . a chain of theatrical pearls nourished by a master of comic dialogue"; and of A Singular Man the London Times "One of the funniest and one of the saddest plays. . . ." The Saddest Summer of Samuel S has not yet been produced, and this marks its first publication in play form. J. P. Donleavy was born in New York City m 1926 and educated there and at Trinity College, Dublin. He is the author of four novels, The Ginger Man, A Singular Man,Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B, and The Onion Eaters, a short novel, The Saddest Summer of Samuel S; and a collection of stories, Meet My Maker The Mad Molecule.
