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The Ginger Man, May 2001
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THE GINGER MAN
By: J. P. Donleavy

There are a few novelists who are writing out of a sense of what the contemporary world is all about. - NYTimes Book Review

Grove Press
May 2001
Featuring: Sebastian Dangerfield
352 pages
ISBN: 0802137954
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First published in Paris in 1955 and originally banned in America, 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 studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Dangerfield's appetite for women, liquor, and general roguishness is insatiable--and he satisfies it with endless charm.

"Lusty, violent, wildly funny ... The Ginger Man is the picaresque novel to stop them all."--Dorothy Parker, Esquire

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