The Destinies Of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: FIrst Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A riotous and darkly comic novel, The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman chronicles the misadventures of Reginald Darcy Dancer Kildare, a young Irish aristocrat struggling to maintain his crumbling estate and dissolute lifestyle in mid-twentieth-century Ireland. With the same irreverent wit and bawdy exuberance that defined his celebrated The Ginger Man, J. P. Donleavy presents a picaresque hero careening through a world of eccentric servants, amorous entanglements, financial ruin, and social absurdity. The narrative unfolds with Donleavy's signature lyrical prose — a breathless, stream-of-consciousness style that captures both the grandeur and the grotesque decay of the Anglo-Irish gentry. Darkly funny yet tinged with genuine melancholy, the novel illustrates the collision between old-world privilege and an encroaching modern reality that has no patience for gentlemen of Darcy's particular breed. It is a richly entertaining and distinctly Irish tragicomedy that cements Donleavy's reputation as one of the twentieth century's most original comic voices.
Author: J. P. Donleavy
Format: Hardback
Published: 1978, Allen Lane
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: FIrst Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A riotous and darkly comic novel, The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman chronicles the misadventures of Reginald Darcy Dancer Kildare, a young Irish aristocrat struggling to maintain his crumbling estate and dissolute lifestyle in mid-twentieth-century Ireland. With the same irreverent wit and bawdy exuberance that defined his celebrated The Ginger Man, J. P. Donleavy presents a picaresque hero careening through a world of eccentric servants, amorous entanglements, financial ruin, and social absurdity. The narrative unfolds with Donleavy's signature lyrical prose — a breathless, stream-of-consciousness style that captures both the grandeur and the grotesque decay of the Anglo-Irish gentry. Darkly funny yet tinged with genuine melancholy, the novel illustrates the collision between old-world privilege and an encroaching modern reality that has no patience for gentlemen of Darcy's particular breed. It is a richly entertaining and distinctly Irish tragicomedy that cements Donleavy's reputation as one of the twentieth century's most original comic voices.