Author: DONLEAVY, J.P.
Title: The Lady Who Liked Clean Rest Rooms. With Eight Original Illustrations by Elliott Banfield (1995)
Description: New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.. Chronicle of one of the Strangest Stories Ever to be Rumoured About Around New York. First Edition. First printing number line 127 p., ills HARDCOVER: (Orig. hardcover with decorative dustjacket. AS NEW) ¶ First Edition this fine copy in a fine dust jacket."This is Donleavy at his best - witty, biting, decidedly scatological, eccentrically punctuated, inspiring laugh-out-loud fun." Not since The Ginger Man has J.P. Donleavy succeeded in both delighting and irking his readers as he has with The Lady Who Like Clean Restrooms. This stylish novella tells the tale of Jocelyn Guenevere Marchantiere Jones, whose Scarsdale life comes to an abrupt end when her husband goes in search of a bit of "fresh flesh." Soon she is fending for herself in New York City, where finding a clean restroom will prove to be the least of her concerns.

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