The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman

London: Allen Lane, 1978.

Price: $20.00

Hardcover. First English edition. Fine in a fine dustwrapper.

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Item #69420 The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman. J. P. DONLEAVY.

J.P. Donleavy
birth name: James Patrick Donleavy
born: 4/23/1926

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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