Reading Group - The Ginger Man

One of the best-selling novels of all time, Donleavy's coruscating comic debut has been both widely condemned for obscenity and even more widely prized for its uproarious humour, stylistic exuberance and psychological insight. Tracing the bawdy academic career of the American Sebastian Dangerfield at Trinity College Dublin, the book prompted comparisons with the work of James Joyce, Dylan Thomas and Flann O'Brien on its publication in 1955, and continues to attract a wide cult following. RJ