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    J.P. Donleavy: An Author and his Image

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    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. From the banks of the Seine to the streets of the Bronx, from the stables of the Dublin Horse Show to cocktails at Claridge's, we are transported by these collected short pieces into the singular and spirited world of J. P. Donleavy. Bringing an uncommonly objective yet affectionate eye to his writings on his own birthplace, America, balancing unabashed adoration with good-humoured bewilderment in his depiction of his heart's home, Ireland, the author presents us with a fresh, engaging vista that could only be his own. Whether reviewing a book on sexual exercises for women or paying homage to Yeats, the impress is unmistakably Donleavy's. The initial publication of these pieces in various newspapers and journals around the world gave the author particular pleasure because he knew that he would reach people who were not normally book readers. However, he admits that the fate of most periodicals and newspapers is to be used to 'wrap fish, keep vagrants warm and help light fires'. Books, on the other hand, 'preserve their pages better between covers', and with their publication here he hopes that 'these pieces separately written over these many years can now keep each other company'. An Author and His Image offers a comprehensive overview of one of the most original and incisive voices of the last half-century.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Lilliput Press
    Release dateSep 1, 2011
    ISBN9781843512103
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    J. P. Donleavy

    J.P. ‘Mike’ Donleavy has written more than twenty books since The Ginger Man, including The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B, Meet My Maker the Mad Molecule, A Fairy Tale of New York, The Onion Eaters and Schultz (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. He lives along the shores of Lough Owel near Mullingar in County Westmeath.

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      This book consists of articles and essays apparently written for previous publication, although not attributed here. It is divided into nine sections roughly by subject. The Dublin section notes “you can still listen to the priceless form of native entertainment, the blarney” and “a drinking premises is never more than sixty seven paces away.” Presumably there’s a correlation.There are reminisces of Donleavy’s childhood in the Bronx and a couple of writer with a chip on his shoulder essays. He writes of his adopted home of Ireland, where “insanity in this place is less noticeable in the people than it is anywhere else on earth.”Donleavy’s trademark humor is prevalent, as it is in everything he wrote. He also makes some serious, and relevant points. “The civility of a nation can be ruined by just one man’s rudeness” says Donleavy, the native New Yorker.