One of the best novels of a modern American writer of Irish origin will vividly remind the young reader in its mood of one of the best videos of the English musician Sting “Foreigner in New York”, and the more sophisticated reader will, of course, remember the work of one of Dunleavy’s spiritual fathers - Henry Miller with his famous bestseller “Tropic of Cancer”, where the tragicomic bacchanalia of eros is intertwined with piercing thoughts about the essence of human existence. Dunleavy's stories are about the same thing, where the hero searches for himself in the past, present, but if he finds it, it is rather in himself.