J.P. Donleavy

"Anyone can be a friend, so long as you don't get to know him too well..

And anyone can be an enemy and you get to know him
better than most."

NOVELS & NOVELLAS

The Ginger Man 
A Singular Man 
The Saddest Summer of Samuel S 
The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B 
The Onion Eaters
A Fairy Tale of New York
The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman Schultz
Leila: Further in the Life and Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman
Are You Listening Rabbi Löw
That Darcy, That Dancer, That Gentleman
The Lady Who Liked Clean Rest Rooms
Wrong Information is Being Given Out at Princeton

"If you're going to love somebody,
love somebody who needs it."
~ J.P. Donleavy
COLLECTED SHORT FICTION & NON FICTION

Meet My Maker the Mad Molecule (fiction)
An Author and His Image (non fiction)
 
PLAYS 

What They did in Dublin with The Ginger Man
The Ginger Man
Fairy Tales of New York
A Singular Man
The Saddest Summer of Samuel S
The Plays of J.P. Donleavy
J.P. Donleavy - The Plays 

NON FICTION 

J.P. Donleavy's Ireland in All of Her Sins and Some of Her Graces
A Singular Country
The History of the Ginger Man
The History of the Ginger Man: An Autobiography

WORKS THAT DEFY CATEGORY

The Unexpurgated Code: A Complete Manual of Survival and Manners

De Alfonce Tennis: The Superlative Game of Eccentric Champions Its History,

 Accoutrements, Rules, Conduct and Regimen

This Author came to my attention  for the use of the word Fuckpig, or Fuckpigs.

"Meet you
In apple green
July
Hiding
Arm's length
Under the
Uttermost tree
We'll
Play
A Pink
Piano.
Become
Each other's
Sadness."

~J.P. Donleavy,  
from A Singular Man