J.P. Donleavy Books

Franklin Library J.P. Donleavy books:
The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman - limited first edition ( not signed ) - 1977
The Ginger Man - signed limited edition - 1978
Leila - signed first edition - 1983

 

The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman - Darcy Dancer Series Book 1
His future is disastrous, his present indecent, his past divine. He Is Darcy Dancer, youthful squire of Andromeda Park, the great gray stone mansion inhabited by Crooks, the cross-eyed butler, and the sexy, aristocratic Miss Von B.

 

Leila: Further in the Life and Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman - Darcy Dancer Series Book 2
This sequel to The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman finds our hero falling in with decidedly low company like the dissolute Dublin poet, Foxy Slattery, and Ronald Rashers, who absconds with the family silver before falling head over heels in love with the lissome Leila.

The Ginger Man
First published in Paris in 1955 and originally banned in America, J. P. Donleavy's first novel is now recognized the world over as a masterpiece and a modern classic of the highest order. Set in Ireland just after World War II, The Ginger Man is J. P. Donleavy's wildly funny, picaresque classic novel of the misadventures of Sebastian Dangerfield, a young American ne'er-do-well studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Dangerfield's appetite for women, liquor, and general roguishness is insatiable--and he satisfies it with endless charm.