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3404412A Fairy Tale of New Yorkhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/a-fairy-tale-of-new-york-9780802198174/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3859181/f7e62f75-b58d-40a9-84c2-6cb6aac016cb.jpg?v=638385984075900000MXNGrove AtlanticOutOfStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>The tale of a handsome modern-day prince in the gutters of New Yorkfrom a writer of explosive, winning imagination (<em>The New York Times Book Review</em>).</strong></p><p>After studying at Trinity College, Dublin, Cornelius Christianborn in Brooklyn and raised in the Bronxhas returned to New York City with a cultured accent, refined manners, and the corpse of his wife who died shipboard.</p><p>Charismatic but penniless, he takes a job with a funeral director to pay for the burial expenses. In the course of his duties he meets the desirous and wealthy widow Fanny Sourpuss. Its only his first conquest, one that impels Cornelius on a journey of rescue through Manhattanfrom street brawls to calamitous affairs, from a hookers fury to murder, from the subway sewers of a dirty city to its towering castles. But how long can the acquired charms of the prince last, how long can he care, and wholl be there to rescue <em>him</em>?</p><p>In Cornelius Christian, who sings of lifes goodness in the wake of disaster, J. P. Donleavy, author of the legendary <em>The Ginger Man</em>, created one of his most indelible, infuriating, and irresistible charactersa parody of the fairy tale hero, lusting after princesses in honky-tonk New York (<em>The Harvard Crimson</em>).</p><p>No contemporary writer is better than Donleavy at his best. <em>The New Yorker</em></p><p>Fast, funny and addictive. <em>The Guardian</em></p>...3340617A Fairy Tale of New York00https://www.gandhi.com.mx/a-fairy-tale-of-new-york-9780802198174/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3859181/f7e62f75-b58d-40a9-84c2-6cb6aac016cb.jpg?v=638385984075900000OutOfStockMXN0DIEbook20079780802198174_W3siaWQiOiI3MGZkMzc4ZS1lMDMwLTQ5MzktOGQyMy0wNGU3MjRhMDkyMDciLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjIyOSwiZGlzY291bnQiOjQxLCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjE4OCwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjQtMDQtMjNUMTk6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9780802198174_<p><strong>The tale of a handsome modern-day prince in the gutters of New Yorkfrom a writer of explosive, winning imagination (<em>The New York Times Book Review</em>).</strong></p><p>After studying at Trinity College, Dublin, Cornelius Christianborn in Brooklyn and raised in the Bronxhas returned to New York City with a cultured accent, refined manners, and the corpse of his wife who died shipboard.</p><p>Charismatic but penniless, he takes a job with a funeral director to pay for the burial expenses. In the course of his duties he meets the desirous and wealthy widow Fanny Sourpuss. Its only his first conquest, one that impels Cornelius on a journey of rescue through Manhattanfrom street brawls to calamitous affairs, from a hookers fury to murder, from the subway sewers of a dirty city to its towering castles. But how long can the acquired charms of the prince last, how long can he care, and wholl be there to rescue <em>him</em>?</p><p>In Cornelius Christian, who sings of lifes goodness in the wake of disaster, J. P. Donleavy, author of the legendary <em>The Ginger Man</em>, created one of his most indelible, infuriating, and irresistible charactersa parody of the fairy tale hero, lusting after princesses in honky-tonk New York (<em>The Harvard Crimson</em>).</p><p>No contemporary writer is better than Donleavy at his best. <em>The New Yorker</em></p><p>Fast, funny and addictive. <em>The Guardian</em></p>...9780802198174_Grove Atlanticlibro_electonico_8a7757ac-c767-346b-b09f-5ff782fb4580_9780802198174;9780802198174_9780802198174J. P.InglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/openroadmedia-epub-7cabe5e7-ff25-4ad7-bb30-89380003f205.epub2007-12-01T00:00:00+00:00Grove Atlantic