Paperback book
Penguin 1976 (First Published 1964, First Penguin 1967)
‘In this book of short pieces Donleavy has given us the lyric poems to go with
his epics. They are almost all elegies –
sad songs of decayed hope, bitter little jitterbuggings of an exasperated soul,
with barracuda bites of lacerating humour he brings blood-red into the grey of
fate. These stories and sketches move
between Europe and America, New York and Dublin and London. America is always the spoiled paradise, the
land of the curdled milk and maggoty honey. The place that used to get you in the end, but
that now does it in the beginning.’ Newsweek
Condition:
The book is in good condition for its age.
The cover has slight edge and corner wear (especially to corners and the
spine) and faint surface marks and scratches.
Inside, the book has a couple of very slightly bent corners, slight
creasing and rippling, minor surface marks and slight age browning. The pages appear to be in tight and clean
condition.