The Ginger Man

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.

"The Ginger Man had great balls, a rare thing in these twisted times." —Hunter S. Thompson

THE GINGER MAN – THE SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

BY J.P. DONLEAVY

"Mad, wanton youth at its most honest, brutal, hilarious evocative and insubordinate best." —From the foreword by Johnny Depp.