Singular man by j&p donleavy biography
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A Singular Man
Book by J. P. Donleavy
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A Singular Man is a 1963 latest by J. P. Donleavy.
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Plot introduction
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Characters
[edit]Main characters include:
- George Smith
- Miss Tomson
- Miss Martin
- Cedric Theologizer Bonniface Clementine
Reception
[edit]In a study for interpretation National Observer, Hunter S. Thompson referred to Donleavy's novel introduction "a jewel of terminology about love" and referred to Donleavy as
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A Singular Man
I was on the fence about including Donleavy's second novel on my 1963 reading list. I guess it was seeing somewhere on the web that his first novel, The Ginger Man, was Hunter S Thompson's favorite book that decided me. I know that does not make much sense, being the raging feminist that I am, but I am also a bit of an intellectual anarchist plus I don't hate men.
So I read A Singular Man and it was good, maybe almost amazing. George Smith is another character, like Sebastion Dangerfeld in The Ginger Man, who just can't fit in with society's expectations in terms of what makes a good man. Is that the basis of my attraction to J P Donleavy? Could be. The misfit equation.
George is an orphan, a failed husband and father, a stupendously successful business man and lonely as hell. He has enemies in the business world and truthfully he is a pussy grabber. I know, I know.
The writing style is a bit odd. Part stream of consciousness, part William Burroughs/Henry Miller cut-up smut. But it works. As I followed George through a pathetic winter in early 1960s New York City, I began to feel empathy for the guy. I got sentimental about him and his troubles even as I was laughing at his misadventures and feeling sorry for the women in the story.
His
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A singular man: J P Donleavy on his fascinating life since The Ginger Man
Whether it's prolonged exposure to the almost eerie silence of the remote Irish countryside or just old age, J P Donleavy has undergone a dramatic transformation. The 84-year-old author of The Ginger Man has abandoned his trademark elegantly tailored three-piece tweed suits and hand-made brogues for worn loafers, tracksuit bottoms and a battered jerkin held in place with bull clips.
A straw hat askew on his head and a small writing table at his elbow, he sits pensively between the soaring twin pillars in front of his crumbling Georgian pile Levington Park. All around him in every direction are his 180 acres of beef-nourishing grass in County Westmeath.
His trademark beard now completely white and his eyes shielded behind brown-tinted spectacles, he is far removed from the randy and dashing Sebastian Dangerfield, hero and villain of his famous novel.
Donleavy has to be rich on the continuing cash flow from the iconic novel published 55 years ago about the racy adventures of Dangerfield, a young American living in Dublin with his English wife and infant daughter and studying at Trinity College. It is a fictionalised account of Donleavy's own experiences studying at TCD after the Second World War. Named