See You in the Funny Papers!

Here is an offbeat humorous novel that describes a young man learning about the real world as a Professional Men's Fashion Consultant (read Retail Sales Clerk) in an upscale haberdashery. His landlady fights to make him a staunch anti-communist. His co-workers try to prove that the more things do not change, the more they remain the same! His customers often make bizarre requests that they consider normal. He pays less attention to them than he does to what he learns about the value of effective communication from a famous correspondence course and numerous wacky conversations with his demanding customers. Too, he searches to find a meaningful career and he tries to develop a (gulp) philosophy of life based on the comic strips and comic books which comprise his chief reading. Full of puns, malapropisms, and other wordplay, this story takes place in the early 1950's which is right on the cusp of great societal change.