- Gebundene Ausgabe: 126 Seiten
- Verlag: St Martins Pr (Juni 1997)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0312155638
- ISBN-13: 978-0312155636
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 21,1 x 13,7 x 2 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.8 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (6 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.474.240 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Readers of Donleavy's best-seller of 40 years ago, The Ginger Man, may be clamoring for this work; they'll find a moderately effective satire on an insipid, absurd, money-driven world. The story is told in first and third person from the point of view of the ironically named Jocelyn "Joy" Jones. After her husband leaves for a younger woman, she becomes increasingly isolated and angry at the world, and, of course, her fate worsens: her college kids want no part of her; bills mount; she sells her large Scarsdale house, but her financial investor loses all the proceeds. Then her appreciation for clean rest rooms, the great legacy of her grandmother, lands her in a funeral home on one of her day trips to Manhattan museums, where her casual signing of a ledger leads to a multimillion-dollar inheritance from a total stranger, an absurd reversal that cannot undo her suicidal fatigue with the emptiness money had once concealed from her. Jim O'Laughlin
From Kirkus Reviews
The famed author of The Gingerman shows--in this angst-and-arsenic-laced little bonbon- -that there's plenty of wit and heart in the writer yet. At 42, beautiful Mrs. Steve Jones lives a splendid life indeed in her fine mansion at number 17 Winnapoopoo Road in Scarsdale--or does, that is, until husband Steve leaves her for a bimbo: at which time Mrs. Jones, who's been born, bred (in a southern state), and educated always and only to be the finest and most tasteful and discriminating of ladies, washes her hands of him for keeps in exchange for the mansion itself and a cool hundred-sixty-five thousand. And? Well, a downward spiral follows, sadly, as inept and dishonest brokers lose huge gobs of Jocelyn's money (full name, if needed for reference: Jocelyn Guenevere Machantiere Jones), as classy neighbors begin to snub her, as she starts to drink more, and as she feels increasingly like the mad girl across the road who appears at the window from time to time, in handcuffs. Selling the mansion (after first shooting her TV set with a priceless shotgun) gives her money enough to survive by moving to an apartment in a lesser neighborhood--then to another in a still lesser neighborhood--and to continue doing the only thing she really wants, which is to make train trips into the city to visit the art museums and find clean bathrooms to pee in. One clean bathroom she knows of happens to be in a funeral parlor and--by now she's falling into true, suicidal despair--her chancing to use it at just a certain moment will have a huge effect (and at the same time none at all) on her fate. A brilliantly brief, gloriously irreverent, perfectly raunchy, wonderfully hilarious--and sad, melancholy, tearful look at one woman's life. (Eight illustrations by Elliot Banfield are just as good as the book.) -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Format:Taschenbuch
My book group read this and though it was certainly the shortest book we have read, it led to the longest discussion we've ever had. The protagonist is a women whose husband leaves her for a younger woman. Because of this and some bad decisions on her part she loses her house, country club membership, friends, kids...status in her community and ends up living in a small room in New York, working at a store for minimum wage. She is miserable. Through a very unusual series of events, she regains her wealth only to realize that it's not the money that made her happy, it was her former life and she can not have that back. The ending leaves you thinking for a long, long time. This book is written as the woman thinks and Donleavy's writing style is hard to get used to at first. It is almost as if you are inside her head. This is a book to pass along to friends so that you can talk about it for hours.
Format:Taschenbuch
By far this is one of Donleavy's shortest novels and its succintness is its saving grace. I literally finished it in two nights of light reading and it was a delightful tale from start to finish. Highly recommended.
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
The only problem with this book is that it isn't long enough!!!Funny, insightful...this book has everything, including a fabulous ending.
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Donleavy's pithy chronicle of the downward spiral brilliant
The Lady Who Liked Clean Rest Room is Donleavy's second Novella, the first since The Saddest Summer of Samuel S. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 5. Januar 1999 veröffentlicht
A Beaut of a Tale
Just goes to show what imagination and command of the language can do. Truly a book you cannot put down. The ultimate WASP. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 13. November 1997 veröffentlicht
Like your whiskey straight?
I was enchanted with this book right from the
beginning, perhaps as much for Donleavy's
characterization of the protagonist than for his
use (love? Lesen Sie weiter...
beginning, perhaps as much for Donleavy's
characterization of the protagonist than for his
use (love? Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 15. August 1997 von eileen.donovan@us.mw.com
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