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The Ginger Man

Name: The Ginger Man
Author: J. P. Donleavy

J. P. Donleavy

The Ginger Man is a novel, first published in Paris in 1955, by J. P. Donleavy. The story is set in Dublin, Ireland, in post-war 1947. Upon its publication, it was banned both in Ireland and the United States of America by reason of obscenity.

“All I want
Is one break
Which is not
My neck.”

J. P. Donleavy book The Ginger Man

The Ginger Man (1955; New York: Delacorte Press, 1973) p. 319.

“When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both it's health, you worry about getting rupture or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.”

J. P. Donleavy book The Ginger Man

The Ginger Man (1955; New York: Delacorte Press, 1973) p. 45.

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