The Ginger Man

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The Ginger Man is a 1955 comic novel by J.P. Donleavy, notorious for its bawdy, irreverent portrayal of an amoral American student in postwar Dublin and long regarded as a cult classic of modern literature.

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The Ginger Man canonical 2
The Ginger Man (uncut edition) 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf comic novel ⓘ
novel ⓘ
adaptation The Ginger Man (stage play) ⓘ
adaptedBy J. P. Donleavy ⓘ
author J. P. Donleavy ⓘ
censorshipReason obscenity ⓘ
censorshipStatus banned in Ireland ⓘ
banned in the United States ⓘ
controversial true ⓘ
countryOfOrigin Ireland ⓘ
criticalReception mixed on release ⓘ
firstPublicationPlace Paris ⓘ
firstPublisher Olympia Press ⓘ
genre comic novel ⓘ
picaresque novel ⓘ
satirical novel ⓘ
hasCharacter Kenneth O’Keefe ⓘ
Marion Dangerfield ⓘ
Miss Frost ⓘ
Sebastian Dangerfield ⓘ
hasISBN 9780802144669 ⓘ
influenced later comic and picaresque fiction ⓘ
language English ⓘ
laterReception highly regarded ⓘ
literaryMovement postwar literature ⓘ
literaryStatus cult classic ⓘ
mainCharacter Sebastian Dangerfield ⓘ
narrativeStyle first-person ⓘ
notableFor comic treatment of serious themes ⓘ
explicit sexual content ⓘ
pageCountApprox 300 ⓘ
protagonistNationality American ⓘ
publicationYear 1955 ⓘ
publisherAtFirstEnglishEdition Neville Spearman ⓘ
settingCountry Ireland ⓘ
settingLocation Dublin ⓘ
settingPeriod post-World War II ⓘ
theme alienation ⓘ
amoral behavior ⓘ
bohemian lifestyle ⓘ
marital conflict ⓘ
postwar disillusionment ⓘ
poverty ⓘ
religion and hypocrisy ⓘ
sexuality ⓘ
tone bawdy ⓘ
irreverent ⓘ

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Olympia Press → publishedWork → The Ginger Man ⓘ
Maurice Girodias → notablePublication → The Ginger Man (uncut edition) ⓘ
linked to: The Ginger Man
J. P. Donleavy → notableWork → The Ginger Man ⓘ