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...Donleavy writes sad and lonely books. From The Ginger Man to The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B, his fictional worlds seem to spin through an otherwise lifeless universe. They are closed worlds, their boundaries no more distant than the most prominent erectile tissue. Alone, without context or meaning, the flesh...
...FLEETING, final confrontation. It is the end of a heavy autumn day, probably Thursday. Sybil is walking back from the Coop, carrying all the books for two new courses, a lamp-shade and a box of ginger snaps. Coming towards her, she recognizes Stanley, an old boyfriend whom she has not seen since the summer. She looks up at him, and he stares at her, stares right through her as if they have never met. They have known each other for years, have exchanged birthday presents, have probably slept together. He looks right through her and doesn't speak...
...America take? The compulsion to paw and moon over the good old days extends far beyond Broadway; without question, the most popular pastime of the year is looking back. Sometimes it seems as if half the country would like to be dancing cheek to cheek with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in a great ballroom of the '30s. The other half yearns to join Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman on a back-lot Casablanca of the '40s to whisper: "Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By." We seem to be not so much entering the new decade...
...collapsing along with his sense of proportion. His wife has divorced him. He has resigned his job and gone to live in the addict-infested slums of the Lower East Side. Tormented by the thought that his options were at best illusory, he becomes a 39-year-old Ginger Man, filled with rage and a ravening sexual lust in a city he wildly envisions as a racial prison camp...
...GINGER MACK, black, in her late 30s, was left with seven children and went on welfare when her husband abandoned her. Born in Alabama, she had hopes of attending college when she came North; now she lives in a clean, sparsely furnished prefab apartment not far from Chicago's lakefront, and she is an expert on the welfare family's budget. She says...