The Ginger Man
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Set against the rain-soaked, grey backdrop of 1950s Dublin, The Ginger Man unleashes Sebastian Dangerfield — a wild, reckless, charming American studying law at Trinity College — whose life is a magnificent, careening wreck of debauchery, poverty, and irresistible vitality. Donleavy's explosive debut chronicles Dangerfield's relentless pursuit of pleasure at the expense of his long-suffering wife, his landlords, his creditors, and every soul unfortunate enough to fall within his orbit, painting an unflinching portrait of a man who treats the world as his personal stage for chaos and seduction. First published in Paris by Olympia Press in 1955 after being rejected by mainstream publishers, The Ginger Man has since secured its place as one of the defining works of 20th-century literature — a riotous, profane, and deeply human novel that anticipates the countercultural upheavals of the decades that followed. Donleavy's prose is electric and unconventional, shifting between third-person narration and first-person stream of consciousness in a style that mirrors Dangerfield's own fractured, exuberant worldview. Bracketed alongside the works of Beckett and Joyce in its linguistic daring, this novel asks a question that lingers long after the final page: can a man be utterly reprehensible and yet impossibly, dangerously alive?
Author: J.P. Donleavy
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Set against the rain-soaked, grey backdrop of 1950s Dublin, The Ginger Man unleashes Sebastian Dangerfield — a wild, reckless, charming American studying law at Trinity College — whose life is a magnificent, careening wreck of debauchery, poverty, and irresistible vitality. Donleavy's explosive debut chronicles Dangerfield's relentless pursuit of pleasure at the expense of his long-suffering wife, his landlords, his creditors, and every soul unfortunate enough to fall within his orbit, painting an unflinching portrait of a man who treats the world as his personal stage for chaos and seduction. First published in Paris by Olympia Press in 1955 after being rejected by mainstream publishers, The Ginger Man has since secured its place as one of the defining works of 20th-century literature — a riotous, profane, and deeply human novel that anticipates the countercultural upheavals of the decades that followed. Donleavy's prose is electric and unconventional, shifting between third-person narration and first-person stream of consciousness in a style that mirrors Dangerfield's own fractured, exuberant worldview. Bracketed alongside the works of Beckett and Joyce in its linguistic daring, this novel asks a question that lingers long after the final page: can a man be utterly reprehensible and yet impossibly, dangerously alive?