This Tumult

As well as the original text, this special sixtieth anniversary edition of J.P. Donleavy''s cult novel has a foreword by the actor and director Johnny Depp (who plans to produce a film version); an exchange of letters between Donleavy and the late Arland Ussher; a selection of archival photographs of TCD in the early 1950s, and pages from the original manuscript. Banned in Ireland until 1968, Dorothy Parker wrote ofthe novel, ‘stunning . . . brilliant . . . The Ginger Man is the picaresque novel to stop them all. Lusty, violent, wildly funny, it is a rigadoon of rascality, a bawled-out comic song of sex’.