Are You Listening, Rabbi Low

by J.P. Donleavy

Book Overview

Donleavy continues the adventures of one of his most popular heroes, show biz impressario and libertine extraordinaire, Franz Sigmund "Isadorable" Schultz. Now amidst mayhem and confusion, Shultz... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871132370
• ISBN13: 9780871132376
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Donleavy doesn't hold anything back.

This book is insane. Hilarious. One of my favorites. I know no one who has read it or Schultz. My brother has read Balthazar and Gingerman and Darcy Dancer. I was telling him about the Schultz character and his escapades and had him rolling. Schultz gets himself admitted to the hospital to escape his irate wife. He decides to have a party, although inwardly he is conflicted. He has champagne delivered and all the other necessaries. He seduces the nurse (of course). The Lord Nectarine character is an amazing, subtle literary foil to Schultz's capers. As always well written but I haven't laughed as hard while reading a book since I read this a couple of years ago. I reread Gingerman. Not as funny.