The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B

New York: Delacorte Press, 1968.

Price: $19.50

Hardcover. Good in good dust jacket. Hardcover has mildew residue on cover, corners bumped, edges smudged, dust jacket yellowed, price clipped, chipped at corners, spine and edges.

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J.P. Donleavy
birth name: James Patrick Donleavy
born: 4/23/1926

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Biography

American-born author of the lusty comic novel The Ginger Man (Paris, 1955; U.S., 1958), which introduced Dangerfield, the coarse, comic antihero. Donleavy is noted for characters who display heroism in the face of a mad universe and remain deeply attached to life despite its flaws. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore