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  • Written by: J. P. Donleavy
  • Narrated by: Patrick Moy
  • Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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Narrated by: Patrick Moy
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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.
©1955, 1958, 1965 J. P. Donleavy (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
Classics Literature & Fiction Literary Fiction
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"Lusty, violent, wildly funny... The Ginger Man is the picaresque novel to stop them all." (Dorothy Parker, Esquire)

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a classic

a classic, well narrated. really good. very worth listening. very excellent and good and great

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