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...group of 15 or 20 others and is turned over to a guide. Traveling for two frigid nights, they scramble over secret mountain trails into Spain, carrying their belongings with them. A vegetable truck drives them some 300 miles to an isolated ranch in the Pyrenees above San Sebastian. From there, it is a four-night trek down the Pyrenees into the flatlands of southern France, where they are packed into the false-bottomed trucks. Once out of range of French border police, the escapees are sent to Paris or Lyon by train...
...person of The Ginger Man, Sebastian Dangerfield, Donleavy in 1958 created one of the most outrageous scoundrels in contemporary fiction, a whoring, boozing young wastrel who sponges off his friends and beats his wife and girl friends. Author Donleavy then turns the moral universe on its head by making the reader love Dangerfield for his killer instinct, flamboyant charm, wit, flashing generosity-and above all for his wild, fierce, two-handed grab for every precious second of life. "More," "Now" and "Eeeeee!" are Dangerfield's key words...
...payments come in all sorts of packages. Thunderbird Wine gives a new Ford Thunderbird or the cash equivalent for doing one 20-second spot. Cesar Romero and Alexis Smith quickly snatched for Thunderbirds. Joanne Dru and Sebastian Cabot took the cash. James Mason agreed to plug the wine, but apparently felt that he was not in the Thunderbird class, demanded and got a Rolls-Royce instead. Now Sir Laurence Olivier is all but lined up. He wants not one but two Rolls-Royces, and for his 20 seconds of classical bouquet, he will probably get them...
...Sebastian's story begins as the summer idyl of a well-to-do youth on his family's Danubian estate. His sleep of innocence is torn awake by the discovery of corruption all around him, including incest between his sister and oldest brother. Sebastian flees from home and enlists in the army to find "purity and heroism" in combat; he becomes a daredevil tank commander on the East ern Front as Rumania joins the Axis in the war against Russia. Again reality catches up with the dream, as he witnesses such atrocities as the poisoning of village wells...
Illusions of Power. Disillusioned by patriotism and heroism, as he had been by his youthful innocence, Sebastian is taken prisoner by the Russians; in prison he embraces the dream of cold real ism called Communism. Once the Communists seize power in postwar Rumania, Sebastian becomes an officer of the security police; after he can no longer stomach that, he switches to the industrial bureaucracy. His rise is rapid, but at every step he learns that the most corrupting of all the illusions of power is the one that runs, "If there weren't people with a certain amount...