Donleavy

[don-lee-vee]

noun

1. J(ames) P(atrick), 1926–2017, U.S. novelist.

Donleavy

/ dɒnˈliːvɪ /

noun

1. J ( ames ) P ( atrick ). born 1926, Irish-American novelist. His books include The Ginger Man (1956), The Onion Eaters (1971), Are You Listening Rabbi Löw? (1987), and The Lady Who Liked Clean Rest Rooms (1995)

Example Sentences

Donleavy, you’d like to decompose when you die in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs of Dublin; if you sometimes wish you were an extra in John Gay’s raucous “The Beggar’s Opera,” then Guillermo Stitch’s new novel, “Lake of Urine,” is for you.

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I was horrified yet set alight by the brutal amorality of Sebastian Dangerfield from J. P. Donleavy’s “The Ginger Man,” and I’ll never quite shake the impact of Cheryl Glickman from “The First Bad Man,” by Miranda July.

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Donleavy’s “The Ginger Man,” on the road.

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Donleavy’s Sebastian Dangerfield and John Kennedy Toole’s Ignatius Reilly — although the comedy of “Welfare” is, by necessity, comparatively muted.

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Donleavy, an Irish American novelist whose 1955 debut, “The Ginger Man,” was rejected by 45 publishers for its scabrous, sexually explicit content but eventually sold more than 45 million copies and came to be regarded as a modern classic, died Sept. 11 at a hospital near his home in Mullingar, County Westmeath.

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