The cover of The Ginger Man describes it as "A comic masterpiece", and "Brilliant, lusty, wildly funny..." but I have to say, for a book with such incredible reviews and listed as book #99 of the best contemporary novels, it was very difficult to find. I searched the Salem Library and the Salem State College LIbrary only to find that the best way to obtain a copy was to interoffice loan it from Ipswich. The process for this system, once I realized it existed completely online, was very simple and I now have the book in hand a month after I began my search.
The cover of this book has a bit of artwork by Barton Stabler. The art work shows a miserable looking man sitting at a pub drinking, what appears to be, vodka. A train is zooming by and as far as I can tell he is a (or uses a?) stock broker. The book was written in 1965 so I am interested to learn what a man from Dublin thought of stock brokers and "business men" who have suit jackets stuck together with a safety pin. Given the current economic circumstances, I wonder how our opinions of these men changed over the last 40 years.
Come on, let's read!
