The Ginger Man
Author: J.P. Donleavy
Feckless, unwashed, charming, penurious Sebastian Balfe Dangerfield, Trinity College law student, is an Irish American with an English accent, marooned in the ould country and dreaming of dollars and ready women, stumbles from public house to pawnbrokers, murmering delusive enticements in the ear of any girl who’ll listen, in delerious search of freedom, wealth and the rec….Read More
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