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A letter marked personal
- Title
- A letter marked personal / J.P. Donleavy.
- Author
- Donleavy, J. P. (James Patrick), 1926-2017
- Publication
- Dublin : The Lilliput Press, 2019.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 20-2181 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 227 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- Set in New York, "A Letter Marked Personal" relates the interior monologue of forty-nine-year-old Nathan Langriesh Johnson who is the founder of a successful lingerie company. He "was one of the nicest guys you'd ever want to meet and had reached an age when he could take solace from the fact that he no longer had the whole wilderness of his life ahead to worry about". Nathan began his career as a door-to-door lingerie salesman, his wares consisting of imitations of European designs. Now a confirmed social climber, Nathan distracts himself with remembered or imagined comments by his wife, Muriel, Iowa the model, Reginald the accountant and Hal the realtor, and reminisces about the struggle before his business took off. Then a letter marked "personal" arrives at Nathan's high-rise Manhattan apartment, and is opened by his wife, and his life unravels.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Psychological fiction.
- Novels.
- Fiction.
- Call Number
- JFD 20-2181
- ISBN
- 1843517663
- 9781843517665
- 1843516977
- 9781843516972
- OCLC
- 1090446113
- Author
- Donleavy, J. P. (James Patrick), 1926-2017, author.
- Title
- A letter marked personal / J.P. Donleavy.
- Publisher
- Dublin : The Lilliput Press, 2019.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFD 20-2181