Research Catalog

Title

Meet my maker the mad molecule [by] J.P. Donleavy.

Author

Donleavy, J. P. (James Patrick), 1926-2017.

Publication

Boston, Little, Brown, [©1964]

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Details

Additional Authors

Leonard L. Milberg Collection of Irish Prose NjP

Description

178 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

'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 bloodred into the gray 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 'The stories are swift, imaginative, beautiful.

Series Statement

An Atlantic Monthly Press book

Uniform Title

Atlantic Monthly Press book

Alternative Title

• Mad molecule
• Mad molecule.

Subject

• Short stories, American
• Short stories, American

Genre/Form

• short stories.
• Short stories
• Fiction
• Fiction.
• Short stories.
• Romans.
• Nouvelles.

Source (note)

• Ex copy is gift of Leonard L. Milberg '53 in honor of Robert Fagles.

Contents

The romantic life of Alphonse A ; The mad molecule ; At longitude and latitude ; Call me Cheetah ; A fairy tale of New York ; One for yes ; A friend ; Dear Sylvia ; Dear Hugo ; Party on Saturday afternoon ; Whither wigwams ; Rackets and riches at Wimbledon ; When I bought a bear ; Paddling and persons at Putney ; In my peach shoes ; When I brought the news ; Franz F ; A fraternal fraud ; Pins and medals ; It was my chimes ; A grave ; Thamn ; My painful jaw ; I failed ; You murdered my cat ; Meet my maker ; Gustav G.

LCCN

64017470

OCLC

• ocm01145702
• 1145702
• SCSB-8869441

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library