J. P. Donleavy's Ireland: In All Her Sins and In Some of Her Graces

Viking Hardcover with 223 pages. - Part autobiography and part evocation of an island Donleavy adores. This is Donleavy's portrait of the artist as a young man and his tribute to the land of his fathers, to which he returned. Stylish, loving and racy, this is his homage to those days, those times, those men, and to the country that made him a writer. It's the Dublin of Davy Byrne's and the Bailey, of Bewley's Oriental Cafes and the Royal Hibernian Hotel, of the time when on orange-colored-ten shilling note bought an evening's drinking of seventeen bottles of Guinness, or nine pints of porter, of eleven balls of malt or twenty bottles of Mountjoy Nourishing Stout!