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Meet My Maker the Mad Molecule
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Meet My Maker the Mad Molecule

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'In this book of short pieces Donleavy has given us the lyric poems to go with his epics. They are almost all elegies -- sad songs of decayed hope, bitter little jitterbuggings of an exasperated soul, with barracuda bites of lacerating humour he brings blood-red into the gray of fate. These stories and sketches move between Europe and America, New York and Dublin and London. America is always the spoiled paradise, the land of the curdled milk and maggoty honey. The place that used to get you in the end, but that now does it in the beginning.' Newsweek 'The stories are swift, imaginative, beautiful and funny, and no contemporary writer is better than J. P. Donleavy at his best.' The New Yorker
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Release dateSep 1, 2011
ISBN9781843512066
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J. P. Donleavy

J.P. ‘Mike’ Donleavy has written more than twenty books since The Ginger Man, including The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B, Meet My Maker the Mad Molecule, A Fairy Tale of New York, The Onion Eaters and Schultz (all available as eBooks from Lilliput), along with several works of non-fiction such as The Unexpurgated Code: A Complete Manual of Survival and Manners. He lives along the shores of Lough Owel near Mullingar in County Westmeath.

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    In the short novel The Saddest Summer of Samuel S (which Donleavy also wrote as a play), Samuel is stalked by poverty (not relieved by attempting to work) and loneliness. Surviving on handouts, he attempts to maintain his principles when it comes to women, who seem to want him as a short-term amusement or male concubine.Meet My Maker the Mad Molecule is a series of short stories and pieces in which a young man is cast aside by his wealthy father, another young man's wife dies on a transatlantic voyage, others are embarrassed, hurt, discarded; sometimes they return the favor. The are also a couple of pieces describing Wimbledon and paddling races at Putney.