Books
August, 1971
It's probably safe to say that The Onion Eaters (Delacorte/Seymour Lawrence) is the funniest novel ever written about triorchism, a malformation of the male sex organs that J. P. Donleavy's hero calls his "testicular trinity." The hero, Clayton Claw Cleaver Clementine (a direct American descendant of the Irish Baron Clementine of the Three Glands), has girlfriends who go out of their minds counting. Anyway, young Clementine, who has not been at all well, has been lent a castle in the w...
