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A Letter Marked Personal

A Letter Marked Personal

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Author: J.P Donleavey
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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. When a letter marked personal arrives, Nathan’s luck soon runs out.

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  arrives, his wife opens it and life unravels.

A Letter Marked Personal is J.P Donleavey'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.

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ISBN: 9781843516972

Extent: 232

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  • ‘Long anticipated, finally delivered.’ – IRISH TIMES

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About the Author

J.P. ‘Mike’ Donleavy (1926–2017) wrote more than twenty books afterThe Ginger Man, includingThe Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B(1968),A Fairy Tale of New York(1973),The Onion Eaters(1971) andSchultz(1979) (all available as eBooks from Lilliput), along with several works of non-fiction such asThe Unexpurgated Code: A Complete Manual of Survival and Manners(1975). He lived along the shores of Lough Owel near Mullingar in County Westmeath.

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