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A Letter Marked Personal
J.P. Donleavy
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Belletristik / Comic, Cartoon, Humor, Satire
Beschreibung
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.
Kundenbewertungen
New York, Tony Walton, Bill Dunn, fiction, Donleavy, Mystery, Ginger Man, Johnny Depp, Levington Park, Iowa, Mullingar, Blueberry Hill, Letter, Personal, Final novel, Archive, NLI, J.P. Donleavy, National Library of Ireland