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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) |
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 | : | Special 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.Rating Epithetical Books The Ginger Man
Ratings: 3.65 From 9656 Users | 541 ReviewsAssess Epithetical Books The Ginger Man
this is # 99 on my list of 100. i received the greatest joy when i read the last page and didn t have to spend any more time with ,sabastian. is this a great novel cause donleavy describes in great detail one of the worst characters in literature ? he is cruel to women and yet they keep coming back to him. he doesn t work, barely studies his law books, has no redeeming qualities. he reminds me of the college drunks who wasted their education in college. there are so many bad books on this listI'd hazard a guess that this is one of Shane McGowan's favourite books. Personally, I found the wife-punching, baby-smothering, lying, stealing gobshite of the title utterly charmless. Reading the reviews, however, he's apparently a delightful comic rapscallion. Perhaps this sort of thing was daring and bawdy back in the uptight 1950s. If, like me, Dangerfield's sozzled transatlantic blarney leaves you cold, you are left with the world's most unconvincing sex-machine (with the possible exception
I wonder if neuroscientists will ever be able to analyse tears that contain the byproducts of great happiness and great sadness at the same time. And what is such an intense feeling called? Even to think of this book brings a tear to my eye, and reading it I cry buckets. This horrible, loveable, picaresque hero and antihero, this moonchild of Irish imagination. Wow
How important is it for the reader to like the central protagonist of a novel? Obviously if one is going to spend hundreds of pages in or around a characters head, then it is preferable to empathise with him or her. However there are some books, Dostoyevskys Notes From Underground say, where clearly we are not supposed to like the central character and yet the passion of the prose is such that we cant help but admire the work anyway.These thoughts were high in my mind as I read The Ginger Man.
REVIEW:Chaucer"O scathful harm, condition of poverte!With thirst, with cold, with hunger so confounded,To asken helpe thee shameth in thin herte,If thou non ask, so sore art thou ywoundedThat veray nede unwrappeth al thy wound hid."Down and Out in Paris and DublinManning Clark talked about sex, religion and alcohol as the three great comforters. In The Ginger Man, JP Donleavy seems determined to prove that you can get by with at least two: sex and alcohol, if you add the occasional brawl, fist
The main protagonist, Sebastian Dangerfield, is a feckless, articulate, poetic drunkard who somehow has a roguish charm about him (though you wouldn't want to be saddled with the spiteful ne'er-do-well; he's best viewed from afar). The Irish badinage is indecorously funny and the 'stream-of-consciousness' prose is masterly. Those readers whose sensibilities are easily offended by make-believe misogyny in a fictional novel might want to give it a wide berth.
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