5 Best J. P. Donleavy Books That You Must Read
List of 5 best books written by J. P. Donleavy. James Patrick Donleavy was an American-Irish novelist, short story writer, and playwright. Check out the book list.
1. J.P. Donleavy’s Ireland
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2. J.P. Donleavy: An Author and his Image
J. P. Donleavy has been writing now for forty-five years and, as he admits, an answer to the question why is ‘difficult to dig out of a long past’. Yet over these pages he author’s query is largely answered for him: he has written so much for so long because he writes so very well.
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3. A Fairy Tale of New York
After studying abroad in Europe, Cornelius Christian—born in Brooklyn and raised in the Bronx—has returned to New York City with a cultured accent, refined manners, and the corpse of his wife who died shipboard.
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4. A Singular Man
Despite such precautions as a two-inch-thick surgical steel door and a bullet-proof limousine, Smith remains worried. So he undertakes to build a giant mausoleum, complete with plumbing, in which to live. Hunter S. Thompson called reading this book “like sitting down to an evening of good whisky and mad laughter in a rare conversation somewhere on the edge of reality.”
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5. The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B
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.
