the ginger man
Author | : j.p. donleavy |
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Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1965 |
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Author | : j.p. donleavy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1965 |
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Author | : J. P. Donleavy |
Publisher | : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2010-07-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0802198163 |
“A picaresque novel to stop them all. Lusty, violent, wildly funny, it is a rigadoon of rascality, a bawled-out comic song of sex.” (Dorothy Parker, Esquire) First published in Paris in 1955, and originally banned in the United States and Ireland, J. P. Donleavy’s debut novel has since been recognized around the world as the masterful portrait of a charming and shameless American abroad. Meet Sebastian Dangerfield: husband, father, and American law student at Trinity College in Dublin. Awaiting news of his father’s death and the substantial inheritance to follow, Sebastian barely has time for his studies as he chases women, avoids bill collectors, and tries to survive without having to descend into the bottomless pit of steady work. In the words of Sean O’Reilly, “this man has granted himself the appalling right to say and think whatever the hell he likes. Silver-tongued seducer, hoaxer, thief, violent marauder, fantasist and drunk, he’s a Yank into the bargain, the rank outsider and ‘great gas’ altogether. You cannot help yourself enjoying his outrageous company” (The Irish Times).
Author | : James Patrick Donleavy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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The dramatic story of J.P. Donleavy's personal struggle to publish a book that became a twentieth-century masterpiece.
Author | : Oswald Wynd |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2002-05-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0060959673 |
In 1903, a young Scotswoman named Mary Mackenzie sets sail for China to marry her betrothed, a military attachÉ in Peking. But soon after her arrival, Mary falls into an adulterous affair with a young Japanese nobleman, scandalizing the British community. Casting her out of the European community, her compatriots tear her away from her small daughter. A woman abandoned and alone, Mary learns to survive over forty tumultuous years in Asia, including two world wars and the cataclysmic Tokyo earthquake of 1923.
Author | : James Patrick Donleavy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781843517474 |
Showcasing for the first time 250 of renowned author J.P. Donleavy's most intimate letters, this scrupulously edited collection throws an extraordinary light on the composition, publication and afterlife of The Ginger Man -- the genesis of a masterpiece that went on to sell 60 million copies around the world. Spanning the late 1940s to the early 1980s, the letters chronicle the author's scandalous exchanges between Gainor Crist and Arthur Kenneth Donoghue, his Trinity College friends who inspired the infamous characters Sebastian Dangerfield and Kenneth O'Keefe. As well as providing a comprehensive picture of Donleavy and those closest to him, the book provides a glimpse of the lives of Donleavy, Crist and Donoghue as they venture into the wider world and encounter some of the twentieth century's most influential people along the way. The book features letters to writers Brendan Behan and William Nicholson; actors Richard Harris and Julie Andrews, and Donleavy's publishers Seymour Lawrence and Maurice Giordias amongst others. This unique collection, enriched by images and letter facsimiles, is sure to appeal to a new generation of Donleavy fans and scholars.
Author | : James Patrick Donleavy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : American students |
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Author | : J.P. Donleavy |
Publisher | : Neri Pozza Editore |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2015-03-11T00:00:00+01:00 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 8854510017 |
Ginger Man è la storia di un mostro senza tempo, un diavolo in carne e ossa, un angelo perfido e carismatico. Sebastian Dangerfield è un bel giovanotto e un insaziabile disgraziato, il maschio che ogni donna non può che odiare, con ogni vizio e pochissime virtú: seduttore, erotomane, ladro, imbroglione, violento, bevitore, ingordo – il tipo che abbandona la moglie con la bambina, ruba i soldi dalla borsetta e va a farsi il giro dei pub, invidiato da qualunque altro uomo perché riesce a farla franca, e a salvare la faccia. Sebastian è americano, ha ventisette anni, è andato a vivere a Dublino al termine della guerra e studia giuri-sprudenza al Trinity College; è padre e marito, adora blaterare di decoro e di successo, di famiglia e buone maniere, ma passa il tempo a sognare i soldi facili, a inseguire belle gambe e gonnelle da perlustrare, tra be-vute, battute, accessi di rabbia, truffe e sconcezze. È un eroe comico e maledetto al tempo stesso, invaso dal-lo spirito irrefrenabile di una libertà dissennata, maligna, tragica. Ed è un anti-eroe di quel mondo che si an-dava formando dopo il conflitto, smanioso di dimenticare gli orrori, la fatica, il grande rumore della catastro-fe, e insieme un simbolo dei nostri tempi, in fuga costante dalla realtà e dalla responsabilità, eterno egoista, eterno bambino, sperduto e sgomento di fronte al peso e al dolore insopportabile di una vita normale. Pubblicato a Parigi nel 1955 da Olympia Press, bandito negli Stati Uniti e in Irlanda, uscito in Italia nel 1959 in una versione incompleta, Ginger Man è considerato oggi un capolavoro e un classico, un continuatore dell’esempio magistrale di Henry Miller e James Joyce, tradotto in decine di lingue e ristampato in centinaia di edizioni, con 45 milioni di copie vendute. Comico, delizioso e indecente, uno di quei libri che rivelano le proprie qualità già dalla prima riga... Ginger Man ha dimostrato di saper durare nel tempo, e la sua fama è ancora in crescita». V.S. Naipaul «Ginger Man è il romanzo picaresco definitivo: vigoroso, violento, incredibilmente divertente». Dorothy Parker «Un romanzo che ha lasciato il segno su una intera generazione». The New York Times «Ci sono pochi romanzieri che scrivono a partire da un vero sentimento del mondo contemporaneo, e il migliore è J.P. Donleavy». The New York Times Book Review «Sebastian Dangerfield, l’eroe di Ginger Man, è il furfante piú oltraggioso della narrativa contemporanea, un giovane fannullone alcolizzato e puttaniere». Tim
Author | : Jonathan Isaac Gonzales |
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Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2002 |
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Author | : James P. Donleavy |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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Author | : James Patrick Donleavy |
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Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 1968 |
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