Donleavy's famously bawdy comic novel is about a man who lives for booze and woman and who discards all the restricting conventions of polite society. Donleavy was unable to find a publisher for a novel considered scatological, blasphemous, and generally offensive. It was finally published in Paris by the Olympia Press. This memoir chronicles the story of its fortunes in the publishing world. Donleavy also writes about his Bronx childhood and his years in Ireland and Paris. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.