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Feckless, unwashed and charming, Trinity College law student Sebastian Balfe Dangerfield is an Irish-American with an English accent. Dreaming of dollars and ready women, he stumbles from public house to pawnbrokers, murmering delusive enticements in the ear of any girl who'll listen.

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A triumph. - Guardian * 'Mr Donleavy's creation…has left a mark on a literary generation.’ *
#NAME? * 'Comic, dirty, and delightful. And one of those books which reveals its quality from the first line… The Ginger Man is the picaresque novel to stop them all, lusty, violent, wildly funny.’ *
Dorothy Parker

Ginger Man

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    A Paperback / softback by J. P. Donleavy

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      Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
      Publication Date: 06/03/1997
      ISBN13: 9780349108759, 978-0349108759
      ISBN10: 0349108757
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      Book Synopsis
      Feckless, unwashed and charming, Trinity College law student Sebastian Balfe Dangerfield is an Irish-American with an English accent. Dreaming of dollars and ready women, he stumbles from public house to pawnbrokers, murmering delusive enticements in the ear of any girl who'll listen.

      Trade Review
      A triumph. - Guardian * 'Mr Donleavy's creation…has left a mark on a literary generation.’ *
      #NAME? * 'Comic, dirty, and delightful. And one of those books which reveals its quality from the first line… The Ginger Man is the picaresque novel to stop them all, lusty, violent, wildly funny.’ *
      Dorothy Parker

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