A Fairy Tale of New York (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780871132642)

A Fairy Tale of New York is a funny, lusty, and sad novel of comic genius. Returning from study abroad, Cornelius Christian enters customs with his luggage and his dead wife. His first encounter in New York is with a funeral director, with whom he reluctantly takes employment to pay for the burial expenses. In the course of his duties he meets the beautiful Fanny Sourpuss over her millionaire husband's dead body. However, his over-enthusiastic handling of his first corpse lands him in court. Cornelius Christian wanders through the great sad cathedral that is New York, examining the human condition in all its comic pathos and lonely absurdity. Whether lingering in the Automat drinking from half empty coffee cups and stealing baked beans from the plates of customers who go looking for ketchup, or finding love on a street corner only to end up fighting his way out of a hooker's fists, Cornelius Christian, heroic anti-hero, sings of life's goodness in the wake of disaster.

Author: J. P. Donleavy
ISBN-10: 0871132648
ISBN-13: 9780871132642
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Language: English
Published: 01/18/1994
Pages: 348
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.51w x 0.84d