Ginger Youre Barmy

By David Lodge

Book Overview

When it isn't prison, it's hell. Or at least that's the heartfelt belief of conscripts Jonathan Browne and Mike 'Ginger' Brady. For this is the British Army in the days of National Service, a grimy... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140066403
• ISBN13: 9780140066401
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Penguin UK
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Lodge in Embryo

This is a compelling book; not the relatively lighthearted Lodge of later books and certainly not the funny Lodge. But the terrific use of language and the sharp observation are all there, perhaps not so sharpened as later. And Lodge is obsessed with slightly illicit romance, as in almost all his later books.The picture of conscript life is heartfelt and believable, the involved plot less so.But there's only one David Lodge, so go ahead and spend the hours it takes to read this one. Should probably not be your first taste of Lodge, though.

Angry Young Men

Fans of post war, "angry young man" fiction (Amis, Sillitoe et al) will enjoy this realistic account of compulsory military service in the Britain of the mid-fifties. Quite atmospheric, cynical and accurate.