Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade
by Patrick Dennis
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Book Summary Information
Author: Patrick DennisEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2001-09-11
ISBN: 0767908198
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Broadway
Product features:
- ISBN13: 9780767908191
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Book Reviews of Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade
Book Review: A humor classic
Summary: 4 Stars
This book and the character "Auntie Mame" changed forever how we looked at older women. In the '50's we were dealing with prejudice and "eastern classism".
This book tells us it is the answer to those
while entrenching the eastern snob even further?
A rich east coast prep schooler tells us about his strange upbringing by his maiden aunt. His trustee is made out to be a bore while doing a very good job of making sure he gets his money and goes to the best school.
As much as a comedy classic as this is, I can't endorse
the "givens" that Patrick Dennis builds in.
Much like 19th century English novels
there is a subtext that places the attitudes here
in the era they came from.
Summary of Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade
Wildly successful when it was first published in 1955, Patrick Dennis' Auntie Mame sold over two million copies and stayed put on the New York Times bestseller list for 112 weeks. It was made into a play, a Broadway as well as a Hollywood musical, and a fabulous movie starring Rosalind Russell. Since then, Mame has taken her rightful place in the pantheon of Great and Important People as the world's most beloved, madcap, devastatingly sophisticated, and glamorous aunt. She is impossible to resist, and this hilarious story of an orphaned ten-year-old boy sent to live with his aunt is as delicious a read in the twenty-first century as it was in the 1950s.Single Women Books
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