A Fairy Tale of New York

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This article is about the J. P. Donleavy novel, for the song of a similar name see Fairytale of New York

A Fairy Tale of New York is a novel by Irish American author J. P. Donleavy, published in 1973. The plot concerns Irish-American Cornelius Christian's return to New York after studying in Ireland. The novel was based around Donleavy's earlier work Fairy Tales of New York, a successful stage play published in 1961.