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J.P. Donleavy

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The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B (2001)

How in the world to describe this book??? It's like one of those abstract paintings, where you get too close and it's just blobs of colour. As a reader, I needed to hold it at arm's length, so to speak, disengage my analytic mind and just go with the emotion and enjoy the words. I started read...

The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B (2001) by J.P. Donleavy
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A Singular Man (1994)

JP Donleavy once described himself as a comfortably burned out volcano. A Singular Man was written when the volcano was still spitting fire and lava. It's the story of George Smith – incredibly wealthy, incredibly lonely and incredibly snake-bitten. George is obsessed with two things: death and t...

A Singular Man (1994) by J.P. Donleavy
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A Fairy Tale of New York (1994)

Holly, whom you probably don't know, once felt strongly that every Jansenist, Jesuit, dentist, or destitute should at some point and time ask herself following: What will be found at the crossroads of idealism and benevolence? Will it be The Puritans of the Long Parliament or The Piano Man of L...

A Fairy Tale of New York (1994) by J.P. Donleavy
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The Ginger Man (2001)

Reviewed in June 2014I’ve been familiar with the title of this book for years but never made an attempt to read it till now. I can’t help wondering what a younger me would have thought of it. Something tells me that Sebastian Dangerfield, the ginger man of the title, would have driven me to some ...

The Ginger Man (2001) by J.P. Donleavy

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