Wrong Information is Being Given Out at Princeton: The Chronicle of One of the Strangest Stories Ever To be Rumoured About Around New York - Hardcover

Donleavy, J. P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316643912 ISBN 13: 9780316643917

Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 1998

Synopsis

Alfonso Stephen O'Kelly, known as Stephen, son of rumored former bootleggers, ex-naval gunner, unemployed composer, student of dairy cattle in Wisconsin and of music in Italy, has little to recommend him as a marriage prospect but his tender heart, his chivalry, and his comprehensible knowledge of the great city of New York. So when the exquisitely pneumatic and extraordinarily wealthy Sylvia Triumphington, adored adoptive heiress to the Triumphington family fortune, sets her sights on him, Stephen is taken by surprise.

In marrying into the Trumpington millions, however, Stephen gets rather more than he bargained for. If it where just the gorgeous Sylvia, with her unexpected enthusiasm for rough sex, her obsession for finding her real mother, and her tendency to spend Stephen's nonexistent money rather than draw a cent from her own, presumably overflowing, coffers, things would be fine. But there is also her unpredictable adoptive father, who responds rather badly to any request for a handout. And then their is Sylvia's elegant, insatiable adoptive mother Drusilla, to whom Stephen finds himself inconveniently and conspicuously attracted.

Shuttling between his marital home--a two-room walk-up on the edge of the Bowery--and the Triumpingtons' lavish Upper East Side apartment, Stephen has little time or energy to pursue his dreams of achieving musical glory, and he has more misgivings by the day. It would seem to Stephen that the very rich are secretly different, but not exempt from tragedy, or even from wrong information.

Featuring fourteen elegant and witty original illustrations by Elliott Banfield, the artist whose drawings so enhanced the colorful antics of The Lady Who Like Clean Restrooms, Wrong Information Is Being Given Out At Princeton is a poem to a great city, an elegy on passion, a glorious, irreverent, picaresque journey--it is J.P Donleavy at his extraordinary best.

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From the Publisher:

Advance praise for Wrong Information Is Being Given Out At Princeton:

"Silly, funny, bilious, and wise. Here is a novel to savor as you would a well-poured stout." --The Sunday Telegraph

"At the age of seventy-two, he's still as electric as the city he describes." --Mail on Sunday

"It is wonderful to report that the author of The Ginger Man, now in his seventies, is writing as vigorously as ever. In his new book, the tumbling prose that swoops from pedantry to poetry, fracturing grammar but always making perfect sense, is at the service of a fable that is both tragic and romantic. When it comes to being caught in the snares of sex, poverty, or high society, no one can ferment the language of frustration better than Donleavy." --The Sunday Telegraph

"Donleavy has produced another triumph." --Evening Herald

About the Author:

J.P. Donleavy was born in New York City in 1926 and educated at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. He has written twelve novels, including the classic The Ginger Man and A Fairy Tale of New York, a book of short pieces, and most recently, the novella The Lady Who Liked Clean Restrooms. He lives in County Westmeath, Ireland.

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0316643912
• ISBN 13: 9780316643917
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240