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| The Salesman | 
 enlarge | Author: Joseph O'connor
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 41648
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 0099268388
EAN: 9780099268383
ASIN: 0099268388
Publication Date: December 5, 1998
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 All gardeners are storytellers September 18, 2008
"Because all gardens are stories, as somebody told me once, and all gardeners are storytellers". If this is true, Joseph O'Connor is a great gardener, no shadow of a doubt. Extremely captivating and gripping, "The salesman" is that kind of book you really force yourself to take your eyes off, in order not to finish it too soon and keep the pleasure of having still a few pages to go. Realistic and surreal at the same time, deeply moving as outrageously sarcastic... I certainly would recommend it!
 New Expression April 22, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a very well written book showing great talent. A few typos got past the editorial process. The language is very bad in a lot of places and that's only from the priest; from the others it is demonic.
That said, I can only be positive about the book with two reservations. Firstly; how could Quinn have the energy to perform strenious exercise whilst in the cage unless he had obtained food somehow; did he leave the cage and buy it from a shop; did he get it from the house; would Sweeny not have noticed in that case; would Sweeny not then have at least put an extra padlock on the cage door?
Secondly: how did Quinn retrieve the key from the sleeping Sweeny's pocket; did he get an extra key cut; were there two keys and he had kept one? The book left all these questions unanswered.
However, top marks to O'Connor for producing a top class book
Stuck in my mind September 26, 2005
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is a wonderful read. A super story while highlighting the physche of a lost and lonely alcholic. Actually gave up the booze for a bit after reading this. I read this book quite a while back but to this day it lingers in my mind.
Weird January 26, 2004
17 out of 19 found this review helpful
What a strange book. The first 100 or so pages the book moves along effortless telling the tale of a man and his daughter who is left in a coma following an armed robbery. Interesting , free flowing and reasonably predictably moving the story onwards. Then wallop!! the story takes unexpected turns , one after another. I found this book to be a very interesting read.
Brilliant November 27, 2001
17 out of 19 found this review helpful
Written as a diary, this is a brilliant novel of suspense, love, loneliness, alcoholism, fatherhood, redemption and of course, tragedy. The salesman of the title is a dumpy middle-aged satellite dish salesman who pissed away his family and life as an alcoholic. He's been sober for years, trying to raise his daughter by himself when she is attacked and put into a coma. One of the defendants escapes, and the salesman is left frustrated and angry.When he happens to see the escapee on the street one day he daydreams of revenge. The suspense builds and builds as he follows the criminal and plots his revenge. Interspersed with this is his recounting of meeting his wife and their life together, which he tries to explain to his daughter. Outstanding.
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