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The Ginger Man is a novel, first published in Paris in 1955, by J. P. Donleavy. The story is set in Dublin , Ireland, in post-war 1947. Upon its publication, it was banned both in Ireland and the United States of America by reason of obscenity .
Set in Ireland just after World War II, The Ginger Man is J. P. Donleavy's wildly funny, picaresque classic novel of the misadventures of Sebastian Dangerfield, a young American ne'er-do-well studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Dangerfield's appetite for women, liquor, and general roguishness is insatiable--and he satisfies it with endless ...
Jul 13, 2010 · The Ginger Man is the picaresque novel to stop them all." -- Dorothy Parker "Nasty and lyrical, a curse that sounds suspiciously like a prayer, this outlandish hybrid of Irish-American letters is still armed and dangerous after thirty years. Sebastian Dangerfield, the lecherous, treacherous, larcenous, and thoroughly charming Ginger Man ...
- J. P. Donleavy
The Ginger Man is the picaresque novel to stop them all” by famed author Dorothy Parker. Narrated from alternating first person and third person omniscient perspectives, the story begins in Dublin, Ireland in 1947. Sebastian Dangerfield, a young law student who hails from a wealthy American family in St. Louis, is enrolled at Trinity College ...
Jul 1, 2010 · "The Ginger Man" is a masterpiece of bedlam: a triumphant liberating joyous despairing ribald life-filled tragi-comic treasure. The first chapters are good but then Donleavy begins to drive the action and his main character to ever wilder pitches of intensity outrageousness and lyricism until the "terrifying heart" of the Ginger Man threatens ...
Jun 10, 2014 · "The Ginger Man" is a masterpiece of bedlam: a triumphant liberating joyous despairing ribald life-filled tragi-comic treasure. The first chapters are good but then Donleavy begins to drive the action and his main character to ever wilder pitches of intensity outrageousness and lyricism until the "terrifying heart" of the Ginger Man threatens ...
- J. P. Donleavy
J. P. Donleavy was born James Patrick Donleavy Jr. in Brooklyn, New York on April 23, 1926. After serving in the Navy during World War II, he studied microbiology at Trinity College in Dublin. His first novel, The Ginger Man, was published in 1955. His other novels included A Singular Man, The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B.,
Jul 1, 2010 · The Ginger Man. “A picaresque novel to stop them all. Lusty, violent, wildly funny, it is a rigadoon of rascality, a bawled-out comic song of sex.” (Dorothy Parker, Esquire) First published in Paris in 1955, and originally banned in the United States and Ireland, J. P. Donleavy’s debut novel has since been recognized around the world as ...
Aug 18, 2010 · Set in Ireland just after World War II, The Ginger Man is J.P. Donleavy's novel of the misadventures of Sebastian Dangerfield, a young American ne'er-do-well studying at Trinity College in Dublin. He barely has time for his studies and avoids bill collectors, makes love to almost anything in a skirt, and tries to survive without having to ...
First published in Paris in 1955, and originally banned in the United States, J. P. Donleavy's first novel is now recognized the world over as a masterpiece and a modern classic of the highest order. Set in Ireland just after World War II, The Ginger Man is J. P. Donleavy's wildly funny, picaresque classic novel of the misadventures of Sebastian Dangerfield, a young American ne'er-do-well ...
