A Letter Marked Personal
A Letter Marked Personal A Letter Marked Personal is J.P. Set in New York, it relates the interior monologue of forty-nine-year-old Nathan Langriesh Johnson, the founder of a successful lingerie…
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A Letter Marked Personal
A Letter Marked Personal is J.P. Set in New York, it relates the interior monologue of forty-nine-year-old Nathan Langriesh Johnson, the founder of a successful lingerie company. Donleavy's last novel, completed in 2007.
Now 'a confirmed social climber', Nathan distracts himself with remembered or imagined comments by his wife, Iowa the model, Reginald the accountant and Hal the realtor, and reminisces about the struggle before his business took off. Nathan began his career as a door-to-door lingerie salesman, his wares consisting of imitations of European designs. A letter marked 'personal' arrives at Nathan's high-rise Manhattan apartment, and is opened by 'the wife' his life unravels.
This portrait of a flawed sycophant is full of Donleavy's wit and insight. Tracing a journey from Nathan's aspirational greed to his realization of the pointlessness of his vanity, this is a poignant