Wrong Information Is Being Given Out at Princeton : The Chronicle of One of the Strangest Stories Ever to Be Rumoured About Around New York

by J.P. Donleavy

• ISBN13: 9780312244996
• ISBN10: 0312244991
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1999-12-23
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

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.