“I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.”
A Fairy Tale of New York (London: Eyre Methuen, 1973) p. 224.
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A Fairy Tale of New York
A Fairy Tale of New York is a novel by Irish American writer J. P. Donleavy, published in 1973. The plot concerns Irish-American Cornelius Christian's return to New York after studying in Ireland. The novel was based on Donleavy's earlier work Fairy Tales of New York, a successful stage play published in 1961.
