The History of the Ginger Man by J.P. Donleavy

Author:J.P. Donleavy [J. P. Donleavy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781843512097
Publisher: The Lilliput Press
Published: 2011-09-17T04:00:00+00:00

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THE DAYS now having drifted toward Christmas and the New Year, I was now walking a mile or two to even save a dime and had by miraculous means accumulated $115 with a further $50 to go to pay for my fare overseas. Finally, my ever dependable mother giving me the remainder. The New Yorker magazine rejecting a first few drawings now asked to see more of my fish cartoons. Earlier having booked passage in middle January and in my desperation to secure some last-ditch foothold of achievement in the U.S., I delayed my departure and booked instead on the Cunard liner Franconia, sailing out of New York on February 13. But again, when more cartoons were sent, a letter came back saying they had similar ideas in the works, and their indifference made me send no more.

One of my later cartoons, marine life having become a ready symbol, for in aid of their own survival they often swallowed one another whole.

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