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Original Title:	The Ginger Man
ISBN:	0802137954 (ISBN13: 9780802137951)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Sebastian Dangerfield
Setting:	Ireland
Literary Awards:	National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1959)

The Ginger Man

J.P. Donleavy

Paperback | Pages: 347 pages

Rating: 3.65 | 9656 Users | 541 Reviews

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Title	:	The Ginger Man
Author	:	J.P. Donleavy
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 347 pages
Published	:	March 1st 2001 by Grove Press (first published 1955)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Cultural. Ireland. Humor

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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.

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Ratings: 3.65 From 9656 Users | 541 Reviews

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J.P. Donleavy is a gd genius. It's amazing that people are giving this book bad reviews, simply because they didn't like the central character or his woman-hating, baby-bashing behavior. As I read more and more reviews, especially from younger people, they seem to be positive only if 1) they like the main character and approve of his morals/behavior and 2) if the story made them feel good. Not me. If you judge this book for its prose; story telling; humanness; authenticity; real-life grit...it's

I'd seen The Ginger Man hanging around various bookshops for years but avoided a direct encounter until recently. That was probably a wise intuition as I'm quite certain that Sebastian Dangerfield, the ginger man of the title, would have driven my younger self to some extreme act such as burying the book in a deep hole after the first twenty pages. But if I had done that, Id have thrown away a collection of curious artefacts. Donleavy's book is like the archeological site of literary Dublin and



#99 on the Modern Library Board's List. Published in 1955. If there's a reason people don't succeed in working through the Modern Library backwards, it's probably this. "The Ginger Man" is a novel for no one, except perhaps sociopathic poser intellectuals who find bawdy antipathy entertaining.I'll start with Donleavy's prose style, the only redeeming thing about the novel. "The Ginger Man" swerves wildly between the first and third person, an interior monologue one moment and a systematic

Oh my Irish stars, I'm glad as hell to be done with this novel. I did laugh. But I also cried at how long I had to spend in the head and world of Sebastian Dangerfield, an American with the English, no Irish, accent of the permanently inebriated. I'm no delicate flower, but Dangerfield's gross debauchery left me "cold as a eunuch's balls on the quays." At one point he calls one of his adulterous escapades "bestial bedlam." And it is. Wife and baby at home, too busy freezing to worry about

I couldn't help but think of the fine British comedy Withnail And I while reading this. Much like the dialogue in that film, Donleavy's witty, loosely constructed vignettes might be a bit disorienting at first bit they grow on you and you find yourself chuckling more and more especially in the more bizarre stream of consciousness moments (kangaroo costumes, public transportation "wardrobe malfunctions"). The other point of reference for me was Tropic Of Cancer as the narrator is also an "anti

The book is described as a comic masterpiece and its odd because when I think back to a couple events in the novel, like the toilet paper robbery and the landlord Skully knocking at his window, they seem funny. (The bit of amusement I felt after reading the scene about Skully at the window faded quickly.) But while reading the thing? I laughed only once, and it wasnt something Sebastian did or said at all but part of a letter he received from his friend in America: "This is America and we