A Letter Marked Personal
Autor*in: Donleavy, J.P.
Jahr: 2020
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 224 S.
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- Inhalt:
- Nathan Johnson, forty-eight and restless, began his career as a door-to-door lingerie salesman, reaching the top of the rag trade with a penthouse overlooking Manhattan. A 'confirmed social climber' in 1990s New York City, he looks back on his early struggles, indulging fantasies of life as a country squire on Blueberry Hill - the Westchester estate he buys his wife Muriel as a birthday present. He meets a model from Iowa, different from the rest, and is captivated. When, out of the blue, a letter marked 'personal' arrives, his wife opens it and life unravels. A Letter Marked Personal is J.P.Donleavy's final novel, completed in 2007. His portrait of a flawed Anglophile delineates the American Dream, from aspirational greed to the vanity of human wishes. This poignant story of Nathan's rise and demise speaks for the everyman - an apt farewell from one of literature's true originals.
- J.P. 'Mike' Donleavy (1926-2017) wrote more than twenty books after The Ginger Man, including The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B (1968), A Fairy Tale of New York (1973), The Onion Eaters (1971) and Schultz (1979) (all available as eBooks from Lilliput), along with several works of non-fiction such as The Unexpurgated Code: A Complete Manual of Survival and Manners (1975). He lived along the shores of Lough Owel near Mullingar in County Westmeath.
Titelinformationen
Titel: A Letter Marked Personal
Autor*in: Donleavy, J.P.
Verlag: The Lilliput Press
ISBN: 9781843516989
Kategorie: Belletristik & Unterhaltung, Romane & Erzählungen, Humor
Dateigröße: 415 KB
Format: ePub
Max. Ausleihdauer: 21 Tage