Fiction of Gay Interest

Line on Ginger
Robin Maugham
Publisher: Chapman and Hall
London, UK

Year


 		1949 FIRST EDITION       
Cover / size: Hardback / h 19.1 * w 13 / 136 pp

Dustjacket?   yes

ISBN: n/a

Arbery Ref:   000215

Condition Good

Jacket discoloured, worn and torn in several places. Bookseller's stamp on pre-title page. Binding tight.

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Plot / Content:                              Rating: G

"James Merton finds Ginger Edwards, who was in his squadron in the Western Desert, burgling his house in London late at night. He persuades him to put down his gun and stay for a drink. Then both hear the front-door opening. Ginger thinks Merton has telephoned the police and breaks through the window. 'There's comradeship for you,' he says, and vanishes. Merton, the 'I' of the story, determines to find Ginger.
"Line on Ginger is the story of his effort not only to track down Ginger, but to discover, once he has gound him, why Ginger has become an outlaw. It is a pursuit not only across country but across the experiences that have left their scars in Ginger's mind and heart; for 'there are many wounds that all the love in the world can never heal.'"
(from the jacket)



Background / Biography:

Robert Cecil Romer Maugham, 2nd Viscount Maugham of Hartfield (17 May 1916 - 13 March 1981), known as Robin Maugham, was a British novelist, playwright and travel writer.

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"I stared at the woman with a face like a sheep nuzzling against her bald partner on the dance-floor of the stuffy night club, and drank a little more whisky. I have two excuses for getting drunk, I thought to myself. The girl I invited to dine with me has let me down. And this is the first evening of my holidays. I gazed at the dancers shuffling slowly round the crowded floor. The ovine woman was now nibbling furtively at her partner's ear."

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