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Books The Ginger Man

The formula of The Ginger Man was more or less irresistible: a New York Irishman goes to dreary post-war Dublin and gleefully re-Joyces the joint.

Tweet this quote Read the full piece at New York Review of Books R. W. Flint New York Review of Books 1963
The hero of The Ginger Man behaved rudely enough, but in all his (often tedious) brawling, drinking, and philandering, he had, somehow, the air of a false primitive, and as a commentator on his own behavior he was flamboyant and amusing.

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There’s one spot in The Ginger Man that I’ve never been able to solve to this day. It isn’t perfect. I always treat it as a life and death matter when words go in their finality on a page. They must be right. In some ways, I was relieved to know, coming back to that passage ten years later and deliberating over it again, that it couldn’t be solved even now till this day with what one assumes is one’s accumulated masterliness.

Tweet this quote Read the full piece at The Paris Review J. P. Donleavy The Paris Review 1975