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...LUCK OF GINGER COFFEY (293 pp.) -Brian Moore-Atlantic-Little, Brown...
James Francis ("Ginger") Coffey has discovered the secret of eternal boyhood. He never faces facts. Born in Dublin "in humble circs" but now a status-seeking New Canadian immigrant, Ginger daily imagines his ship will come in even while he founders at some bar. With a flaming red mustache and a bluff military stance acquired in the Irish Army, Ginger leads his troupes of sentimental illusions and heroic reveries straight into the machine-gun fire of reality...
...Maids & Galley Slaves. Belfast-born Canadian Novelist Brian Moore, 38, knows Ginger well; his literary career has been devoted to lives that would be sorry farces if they were not sadder truths. Moore's Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne worried an old maid's wasted years in cruel whispers. In The Feast of Lupercal, he basted a 37-year-old virgin schoolmaster who knew less of sex than his students. While its plot is more forced than forceful, The Luck of Ginger Coffey dyes its boy-man hero in the rich Moore pigments of humor, poignance and irony...
Framingham, Mass., Carousel Theater: Ginger Rogers in Annie Get Your...
...Your cover story read like a watered-down satire with tongue on rye, instead of tongue in cheek, until I reached the perceptive quote from School Psychologist Koss. The quotes that followed, especially the one from "Anti-Conformity Leaguer" Ginger Powers [whose league disbanded because it was becoming too organized], quieted my fear that even TIME had fallen into the easy rut of sameness that suburban living is apt to breed...