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Classics · LightSebastian Dangerfield, an American student at Trinity College, Dublin, pursues drink and women in post-war Dublin
The Ginger Man
1955Moderate readFast pace
★ Modern Library 100 Best Novels (editors' list, 1998), No. 99
An American student in post-war Dublin and his chaotic misadventures
Sebastian Dangerfield is a young American student who arrives in post-war Dublin in 1947 and enrolls at Trinity College. The novel follows his drinking, sexual and occasionally violent misadventures, along with his troubled relationship with his English wife Marion and their daughter. It is a picaresque comic novel. Olympia Press published it in Paris in 1955.
More about this book
Who
Sebastian Dangerfield and his wife Marion.
World
Post-war Dublin, Ireland, in 1947.
What makes it different
Brendan Behan was the first person to read the manuscript. It was initially banned for obscenity in Ireland and the United States.
Feel
Rowdy and comic.
Page count and cover shown for: Selected edition
Further reading
- The Ginger ManWikipedia