{"product_id":"j-p-donleavy-a-letter-marked-personal-2019-hardback","title":"J.P. Donleavy: A Letter Marked Personal [2019] hardback","description":"`Nathan Langriesh Johnson is the name. The United States my nation, From Maine to Florida. From New York to California. I am its loyal citizen. And before I am homeless out on the street, I am, without slipping and breaking my neck, going to wash my face in semi-cold water.' \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNathan Johnson, forty-eight and restless, began his career as a door-to-door lingerie salesman, reaching the top of the rag trade with a penthouse overlooking Manhattan. A `confirmed social climber' in 1990s New York City, he looks back on his early struggles, indulging fantasies of life as a country squire on Blueberry Hill - the Westchester estate he buys his wife Muriel as a birthday present. He meets a model from Iowa, different from the rest, and is captivated. When, out of the blue, a letter marked `personal' arrives, his wife opens it and life unravels. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Letter Marked Personal is J.P.Donleavy's final novel, completed in 2007. His portrait of a flawed Anglophile delineates the American Dream, from aspirational greed to the vanity of human wishes. This poignant story of Nathan's rise and demise speaks for the everyman - an apt farewell from one of literature's true originals.","brand":"Donleavy, J.P.","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":49452339429715,"sku":"XV81843517665","price":24.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/donleavy-j-p-j-p-donleavy-a-letter-marked-personal-2019-hardback-xv81843517665-59065414287699.jpg?v=1727071142","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/j-p-donleavy-a-letter-marked-personal-2019-hardback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}