J. P. Donleavy Boeken

The dramatic story of J.P. Donleavy's personal struggle to publish a book that became a twentieth-century masterpiece

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.

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

The New York Times Book Review called The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B, J. P. Donleavy's hilarious, bittersweet tale of a lost young man's existential odyssey, "a triumphant piece of writing, achieved with that total authority, total mastery which shows that a fine writer is fully extended...." In the years before and after World War II, Balthazar B is the world's last shy, elegant young man. Born to riches in Paris and raised by his governess, Balthazar is shipped off to a British boarding school, where he meets the noble but naughty Beefy. The duo matriculate to Trinity College, Dublin, where Balthazar reads zoology and Beefy prepares for holy orders, all the while sharing amorous adventures high and low, until their university careers come to an abrupt and decidedly unholy end. Written with trademark bravado and a healthy dose of sincerity, The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B is vintage Donleavy.

The Ginger Man is one of the great comic novels of post-war Europe - an anarchic, light-hearted, rambunctious twentieth-century classic following the social and sexual peregrinations of a footloose American on the streets and in the pubs of Dublin.

Ook al jagen ze op een seriemoordenaar, de politie in een Amerikaanse stad bestaat in de eerste plaats uit mensen van vlees en bloed.

By the author of The Ginger Man. Joy Jones has always been brought up to behave like a lady. But being pursued by a host of oversexed suitors has left her patience wearing thin. With shotguns across her knees and under her pillow, she is trigger happy and no longer welcome in polite society.

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.

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.