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Donleavy, J. P. (James Patrick), 1926-
Subjects
City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Urban poor -- Fiction.
Undertakers and undertaking -- Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
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Donleavy, J. P. (James Patrick), 1926-
City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Urban poor -- Fiction.
Undertakers and undertaking -- Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
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A
fairy
tale
of
New
York
/ J.P. Donleavy.
by
Donleavy, J. P. (James Patrick), 1926-
Atlantic Monthly Press ; Distributed by Little, Brown, 1989, c1961.
Call #:
FICTION DON
Subjects
City and town life --
New
York
(State) --
New
York
-- Fiction.
Urban poor -- Fiction.
Undertakers and undertaking -- Fiction.
New
York
(N.Y.) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780871132642 (trade pbk.)
0871132648 (trade pbk.)
Edition:
1st Atlantic Monthly Press pbk. ed.
Description:
341 p. ; 23 cm.
Summary:
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.
Genre:
Humorous fiction.
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