The Ginger Man
New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958.
Price: $200.00
Hardcover. First American edition, published three years after the Paris edition, and "revised," or more accurately, censored from the Paris edition. Some modest foxing on the foredge, else near fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny tears and nicks. Donleavy's first, and best known book, a ribald classic.
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J.P. Donleavy
birth name: James Patrick Donleavy
born: 4/23/1926
Biography
American-born author of the lusty comic novel The Ginger Man (Paris, 1955; U.S., 1958), which introduced Dangerfield, the coarse, comic antihero. Donleavy is noted for characters who display heroism in the face of a mad universe and remain deeply attached to life despite its flaws. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore