The Luck of Ginger Coffey - Softcover

Moore, Brian

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9780586087022: The Luck of Ginger Coffey

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ISBN 10: 0586087028 ISBN 13: 9780586087022

Publisher: Flamingo, 1994

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Ireland was too small for Ginger Coffey. No matter how hard he tried to get on, he just ended up as a glorified errand boy. That was why he emigrated to Canada with his wife and daughter - certain that there, his manifold talents would be recognised.

By the time he has spent the passage money home, and a top newspaper job has turned out to be nothing more than reading proofs for a pittance, Ginger is ready to try anything. Even driving a van delivering fresh nappies to Montreal's young mothers - and collecting the dirty ones. After all, it is only temporary... and things can't get worse... can they?

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'One of our finest living novelists' - The Times

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?No, for wasn?t this the chance he had always wanted? Wasn?t he at long last an adventurer, a man who had gambled all on one horse, a horse coloured Canada, which now by hook or by crook would carry him to fame and fortune??

Meet Ginger Coffey, the irrepressible fortune-hunter of Brian Moore?s award-winning novel. The Luck of Ginger Coffey is the robust, funny, sometimes tragic tale of one unforgettable Irish immigrant to Montreal. Buoyed by unfailing optimism, Ginger confronts the ugly realities of life in the New World. Jobs are scarce, people often inhuman. And dreams of glory do not offer any lasting escape from the hard pinch of poverty.

In spite of the battering he receives in his struggle for survival, Ginger Coffey emerges a true hero ? the ?little? man who can be defeated by anything, except life itself.

The Luck of Ginger Coffey was awarded the Governor General?s Award for Fiction in 1960 and was made into a critically acclaimed motion picture.

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