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A Fairy Tale of New York

A Fairy Tale of New York

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Author: J.P Donleavy
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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. 

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Praise and Reviews

  • 'Outrageous ... electrically alive ... Donleavy's best book to date' – The Washington Post

  • 'Donleavy deftly skewers everything from the American way of life and death to sex and city life, failure, success, poverty and wealth, loneliness and love ... ribald and very funny entertainment ... a fine roller-coaster ride all the way!' – Philadelphia Bulletin

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About the Author

J.P. ‘Mike’ Donleavy (1926–2017) wrote more than twenty books afterThe Ginger Man, includingThe Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B(1968),A Fairy Tale of New York(1973),The Onion Eaters(1971) andSchultz(1979) (all available as eBooks from Lilliput), along with several works of non-fiction such asThe Unexpurgated Code: A Complete Manual of Survival and Manners(1975). He lived along the shores of Lough Owel near Mullingar in County Westmeath.

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