An Expatriate Looks at America
Reflections on his native land by a novelist who liked the place but who came to feel that “if I stayed they would, without even trying, or knowing, kill me.”
Reflections on his native land by a novelist who liked the place but who came to feel that “if I stayed they would, without even trying, or knowing, kill me.”
A New Yorker who studied at Trinity College. Dublin, J. P. DONLEAVY is the author of THE GINGER MAN. a first novel which attracted considerable attention here and in England. The play, which was dramatized by the author from his book, was produced in London and Dublin, and in both places drew endorsements and equally strong condemnations. Mr. Donleavy is now at work on a new novel.
A New Yorker who studied at Trinity College, Dublin, J. P. DONLEAVYis the author of THE GINGER MAN, a first novel which attracted considerable attention here and in England. The play which was dramatized by the author from his book was produced in London and Dublin and in both places drew endorsements and equally strong condemnations. The narrative which follows is drawn from the opening chapters of Mr. Donleavy’s new novel.