But Jesus, when you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both it's health, you worry about getting rupture or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.
The Ginger Man is a novel written by J.P. Donleavy. Released in 1955, it is Donleavy's debut novel and tells of the bawdy adventures of an American in postwar Ireland.
Characters[]
- Sebastian Dangerfield - an American law student in Trinity College
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Publisher's summary[]
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.
See also[]
| Title | Author | Release date | Significance |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce | 1916 | Another novel set in Ireland with similar themes |
| Tropic of Cancer | Henry Miller | 1934 | A novel that caused a similar reaction upon its release |
| Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure | John Cleland | 1748 | A novel that caused a similar reaction upon its release |
| Naked Lunch | William S. Burroughs | 1959 | A novel that caused a similar reaction upon its release |
Sources[]
- Wikipedia
- Goodreads