The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B
New York: A Seymour Lawrence Book / Delacorte Press, (1968).
Price: $35.00
Hardcover. No edition stated. Cloth modestly soiled, very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with modest soiling, short tear on bottom corner on rear flap fold.
Item #587252
J.P. Donleavy
birth name: James Patrick Donleavy
born: 4/23/1926
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