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Alfonso Stephen O'Kelly'O known as Stephen, son of rumoured former bootleggers, ex-naval gunner, unemployed compuser, 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 comprehensive 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 forture, sets her sights on him, Stephen is caught quite off guard.
Marrying into the Triumphington fortune, Stephen gets more than he bargained for. Sylvia's unexpected taste for rough sex, her obsession with finding her real mother, and her proclivity for spending Stephen's non-exsistent money are enough for him to handle but then there is the arrogant and unpredictable adoptive father and his elegant and insatiable wife, Drusilla, to whom Stephen conspicuously and inconveniently is attracted.
And then, of course, is the wrong information....
Featuring fourteen refined and witty illustrations by Elliot Banfield, the artist whose drawings enhanced the colorful antics of The Lady Who Liked Clean Restrooms,, Wrong Information is Being Given out at Princeton, is an elegy on passion, a glorious, irreverent, and picaresque journey.
Synopsis
With World War II behind him, Stephen O'Kelly'O is a young fellow just beginning to get his bearings, as he settles into life in New York City, when he meets up with Sylvia. She is a whirlwind of activity, sexy as can be, filthy rich, terrifically high-maintenance, and impossible to resist. He can't help but take her up on her offer of marriage. No sooner are they married than Stephen is cut off from the family fortune, abandoned by his moody bride, and is introduced to Sylvia's sexy adoptive mother. And then there is the wrong information....
Elliott Banfield, whose drawings so enhanced the colorful antics of The Lady Who Liked Clean Restrooms, has been commissioned to create more of his delightful illustrations for Dorleavy's latest novel.
About the Author
J.P. Donleavy is the author of
The Ginger Man and most recently
The Lady Who Liked Clean Restrooms. A Bronx, New York native, he now lives in Dublin Ireland.