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The Ginger Man
- Narrated by: Patrick Moy
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 10-29-13
- Language: English
- Publisher: Audible Studios
- Whispersync for Voice-ready
Regular price: $24.95
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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.
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- Darwin8u
- Mesa, AZ, United States
- 04-02-18
The lyrical quality of money is strange
It is like J.P. Donleavy lifted Harold Skimpole out of Hard Times and made a whole whore of a novel of him as a young law student in Dublin. There are novels about drinking and there are novels about being shitfaced. This is a shitfaced novel. It ranks right up there with Lowry's Under the Volcano. Except insead of meszcal, there is plenty of stout and Irish whiskey. The prose is distilled three times: once with food, once with f#cKing, and once with irreverant flippancy (maybe once too for finances, but that would ruin my trinity of distilation image).
But the prose? Dear God, Mary and the baby Modern Library, J.P. Donleavy can write crazy post-Joyce juice. He was rock and roll before rock and roll. His sentences hit you like Mick Jagger dancing on John Bonham third drum stick. It doesn't seem like a long novel, but requires slow, devoted reading. You have to put it down and sober up every few pages. More than 80 pages in one sitting will leave you shitfaced with veins breaking and uncontrolled shaking of the hands.
Go easy my friends, and enjoy drowning in the softness.
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- IrishInNJ
- 12-17-16
One of the Best
An instant favorite for me. I'm not sure how this book eluded me for so long but it will be a companion for life. The reading by Moy is nothing short of a performance. Wonderful accents, inflection and pace.
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- Amazon Customer
- Manchester, NH United States
- 01-18-16
Has not age well
I loved this book in college. It was well written and the main characters (well, the men anyway) were so anarchistic. Drinking, brawling, womanizing...at the time it seemed so compelling. Now, 40 years later, I gave it another try. It did not age well. For one thing, the main character is abusive and exploits the women in his life and you can't help but wonder what they ever saw in him. I could go on, but times change and misogyny just isn't amusing anymore.
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- Stephen
- 05-22-17
The Ginger Man - Ok, but
I picked this novel since it is on the list of the top novels. I see the wit and I can see why at the time it was banned in some places. It was interesting performance but it become slow with his endless scheming. I was amused in some places and not in others. It is worth a read to see the character in a certain time and place. However, I will not re-read.