Name: The Lady Who Liked Clean Restrooms (Imprint No. 11)
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The Lady Who Liked Clean Restrooms (Imprint No. 11)

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The Lady Who Liked Clean Restrooms: The Chronicle Of One Of The Strangest Stories Ever To Be Rumoured About Around New York lives up to its name. With a combination of satirical tragedy and comedy, author J.P. Donleavy writes the unravelling story of a wealthy woman who is suddenly divorced and impoverished. Forced to make her own way in New York City, finding a clean restroom is the least of her worries.

Half-leather, bound in black Morocco and handmade grey paste paper.

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J.P. Donleavy’s unique sense of satire delivers a novella of comic tragedy which is appropriately both formal and crass. The story follows Jocelyn Jones, a middle-aged woman who inherited her grandmother’s southern gentile snobbery, if not the social registry. After her husband goes in search of “fresh flesh” she finds herself divorced and unable to keep up her former lifestyle. Unable to turn to her distant children or former socialite friends, she must make her own way in New York City, in search of a renewal of fortune and a clean restroom.

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Weight	2 lbs
Dimensions	half-leather with clamshell 6 3/4" x 10 7/8"
Edition	First edition of 175 copies, bound in black Morocco leather and handmade paste paper in black linen clamshell.
The Author	J.P. Donleavy is an Irish American novelist. His first novel, The Ginger Man, is one of the Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century, although it was widely banned in both the U.S. and Ire
Authors	J.P. Donleavy