 | The Ginger Man by J. P. Donleavy
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $3.11 His signature work. Included in Modern Library's Top 100 novels of the century. Sebastion Dangerfield as social anti-hero. "God's mercy on the wild Ginger Man."
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 | A Fairy Tale of New York (Donleavy, J. P.) by J. P. Donleavy
Buy new: $12.60 / Used from: $2.10 Misadventures of an Irishman in New York after the death of his young wife. "I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own."
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 | A Singular Man by J. P. Donleavy
Buy used from: $0.49 George Smith, under attack from all sides, builds a mausoleum in which to live in peace. "God forgive those incorrigibly strange of spirit."
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 | The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B by J. P. Donleavy
Buy new: $9.72 / Used from: $3.29 An affair with his nanny and life at Trinity College for Balthazar. "And found he was just a little boy like me chilled in an evening desert of sorrow."
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 | The unexpurgated code: A complete manual of survival and manners by J. P Donleavy
Buy used from: $22.08 A non-fiction, satirical guide to upper class life. Hilarious and wonderfully written. "Never throw a thoroughly wasted tantrum. When this kind of energy is expended, you want an audience."
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 | Onion Eaters by J. P. Donleavy
Buy used from: $12.59 Clementine inherits a castle on the Irish coast which draws to it strange people and events. "Take no nonsense from inferiors and less from superiors and count on being surrounded by crass stupidity for most of your life."
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 | The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman by J. P. Donleavy
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $0.62 The hero's progress from high to low and back again. In 1897, Newsday said, the author's "patented style is under firm control here and its indebtedness to Joyce has never been clearer."
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| LEILA - Further in the Life and Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman by JP DONLEAVY
Volume 2 of 3 in the adventures of Darcy Dancer. A friend has yet to return my copy.
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| J.P. Donleavy's Ireland : In All Her Sins & in Some of Her Graces by J.P. Donleavy
Buy used from: $1.73 Part auto-biography and part evocation of his beloved Ireland. He recreates the Dublin he knew when he studied at Trinity after World War II. Interesting photos.
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| Schultz
Buy used from: $1.05 Sexual comedy of London theater impresario who tries to seduce his way to true love. "Conjuring hope to arise from the forlorn vistas of my life."
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| The history of The ginger man by J. P Donleavy
Buy used from: $12.99 Rejected by 35 publishers and initially banned in both the US and Ireland, the Ginger Man becomes a contemporary classic. "There is no good life here. Everything is fake. Even the unhappiness isn't real."
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| That Darcy, That Dancer, That Gentleman by J. P. Donleavy
Buy used from: $0.19 The last Darcy book. "Whoever spares the bad, injures the good, and whatever is done for good men is never done in vain."
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 | Are You Listening Rabbi Low by J. P. Donleavy
Buy used from: $0.33 Volume 2 of Schultz' slide towards disaster. "The only trouble is you get so beaten getting beaten you don't have enough sense to know you're finished and you go on twisting in the anguish and agony."
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 | Wrong Information Is Being Given Out at Princeton: The Chronicle Of One Of The Strangest Stories Ever To Be Rumoured About Around New York by Elliot Banfield
Buy used from: $0.97 Novel in which the author describes the story of America in one simple message: "Get out of my way, I am in a goddamn hurry."
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 | The Lady Who Liked Clean Restrooms: The Chronicle Of One Of The Strangest Stories Ever To Be Rumoured About Around New York by J. P. Donleavy
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $0.01 Very short but worth a few hours. "O God if one could only concentrate, concentrate on just the very simplest of things, there could be no end to the pleasures of life."
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