A Fairy Tale of New York (Record no. 58904)

MARC details
000 -LEADER
fixed length control field 01372nam a2200181 a 4500
001 - CONTROL NUMBER
control field 58904
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20260219124017.0
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780140039641
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency AIS
Modifying agency AIS
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 823.914
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name J.P. Donleavy
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title A Fairy Tale of New York
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Great Britain
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Penguin Books
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1975
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. A Fairy Tale of New York is a funny, lusty, and sad novel of comic genius. Returning from study abroad, Cornelius Christian enters customs with his luggage and his dead wife. His first encounter in New York is with a funeral director, with whom he reluctantly takes employment to pay for the burial expenses. In the course of his duties he meets the beautiful Fanny Sourpuss over her millionaire husband's dead body. However, his over-enthusiastic handling of his first corpse lands him in court. Cornelius Christian wanders through the great sad cathedral that is New York, examining the human condition in all its comic pathos and lonely absurdity. Whether lingering in the Automat drinking from half empty coffee cups and stealing baked beans from the plates of customers who go looking for ketchup, or finding love on a street corner only to end up fighting his way out of a hooker's fists, Cornelius Christian, heroic anti-hero, sings of life's goodness in the wake of disaster.
655 ## - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM
Genre/form data or focus term Fiction
655 ## - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM
Genre/form data or focus term Humor
655 ## - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM
Genre/form data or focus term Comedy
Holdings
Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Collection Home library Current library Shelving location Date acquired Total checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Copy number Price effective from Koha item type
    Dewey Decimal Classification       MDIS Tashkent Learning Resource Center MDIS Tashkent Learning Resource Center   07.02.2023   823.914 TKB035528 19.02.2026 1 19.02.2026 Books