Wrong information is being given out at Princeton : the chronicle of one of the strangest stories ever to be rumoured about around New York

Alfonso Stephen O'Kelly'O known as Stephen, son of rumoured former bootleggers, ex-naval gunner, unemployed compuser, student of dairy cattle in Wisconsin and of music in Italy, has little to recommend him as a marriage prospect but his tender heart, his chivalry, and his comprehensive knowledge of the great city of New York. So when the exquisitely pneumatic and extraordinarily wealthy Sylvia Triumphington, adored adoptive heiress to the Triumphington family forture, sets her sights on him, Stephen is caught quite off guard ... Wrong Information is Being Given out at Princeton' is an excellent work, proving Donleavy is still the master of blending pathos and humour. A comedy on Stephen O'Kelly 'O, an aspiring composer low on cash in 1940s New York. He meets an heiress who falls in love and they marry. The father disowns her, but all is not lost because the mother also falls in love with him and offers to be his patron