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The Pint Man: A Novel (2010)

by Steve Rushin(Favorite Author)

3.65 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0385529929 (ISBN13: 9780385529921)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Doubleday

review 1: Rodney Poole is thirty-five, out of a job, and he has little if any ambition. He is a regular at Boyles, a local pub that allows him to join in trivial conversation, trivia contests, elaborate jokes, and a well-poured "pint".His best friend, Keith, is moving to Chicago and will soon be married. Rodney must now take a deeper look at his life. He is faced with the reality of being single, unemployed, middle-aged, and losing his drinking buddy.Rodney has been set up with a blind date. Mairead comes into his life and finds that they both have some common ground. They seem to like each other and enjoy the puns and pundits that are exchanged between them. Their budding relationship is jeopardized by several comic mishaps that evolve around his friendship with Keith and his... more bar stool at Boyles.The book is filled with trivia, plays on words, metaphors, palindrokmes, and conundrums. The best way to explain it is to give you a few samples of Rodney's wit and wisdom.The next two sentences are the same if you read them backwards.A man, a plan, a canal - Panama!Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog.and other saying:"Why do they sterilize the lethal-injection needles?""How does a blind man know when to stop wiping?""Re-hearsed - what does a casket get when it falls out of a hearse."These appear throughout the book as Rodney is forced to grow up.My favorite comment was "The bookstore was a kind of heaven. It was a place of eternal life."Excellent read, do not let this one get by you.
review 2: I picked this book up because I used to love Steve Rushin's column in sports illustrated. Mr. Rushin's writing talents were evident, and generally good sports writers are know to be good novel writers. This novel didn't disapoint. For the same reasons I enjoyed his column, I enjoyed this book. It was witty, funny, full of wordplay and really showed off his literary talents. I give the book 4 stars instead of 5 because it is not for everyone, namely haters of puns. Otherwise, it is an entertainig love story between a man and his bar, a man and his best friend, and a man and his blind date. less

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