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Auntie Mame

An Irreverent Escapade

By Patrick Dennis

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| Paperback | 9780767908191

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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 RContinue

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.

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    AUNTIE MAME BY PATRICK DENNIS (Penguin Modern Classics £9.99) Heady cocktails and long cigarette-holders at the ready ... Meet auntie Mame. With her tinselly laugh, naughty friends, helter-skelter charm and extravagant lunacy, Mame is America's answe ... (read full critics)

    dailymail published on Tue, 21 Sep 2010

  • Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade

    Review-a-Day Saturday, April 6th, 2002 Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade by Patrick Dennis A review by C. P. Farley Auntie Mame was one of the bestselling books of the fifties, and Mame herself one of the most entertaining fictional characters of t ... (read full critics)

    powells published on Mon, 6 Sep 2010

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    A greatly enjoyable and captivating reading!
    Auntie Mame is such a brilliant and sophisticated Lady and such a sweet and loving aunt (but nothing conventional, be careful!) that nobody will resist her!
    Set in the '30s and '40s and '50s, it hasn't lost at all its sparkling humour.

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    fughetta said on Jan 6, 2010 | Add your feedback

  • Una Zia Pazzesca

    E chi non vorrebbe avere una Zia casinista, originale, trasgressiva, moderna, anticonformista ma anche generosa, profonda, cosmopolita e "saggia" come Mame? Bollato come un libro divertentissimo dalla critica, in effetti lo è davvero ma non soltanto. Ci sono alcuni passaggi drammatici e altri amari ... (continue)

    E chi non vorrebbe avere una Zia casinista, originale, trasgressiva, moderna, anticonformista ma anche generosa, profonda, cosmopolita e "saggia" come Mame? Bollato come un libro divertentissimo dalla critica, in effetti lo è davvero ma non soltanto. Ci sono alcuni passaggi drammatici e altri amari come nella vita di tutti. In ogni caso la lettura è davvero piacevole soprattutto dopo le prima 60 pagine. Si tratta dell'educazione di un ragazzino che rimasto orfano viene affidato all'eccentrica Zia nella New York degli anno 20/30. E' un susseguirsi di eventi eccezionali che vanno, tra gli altri, dal matrimonio della zia con un ricco texano, al fidanzamento del ragazzino con una giovane di famiglia ultra conservatrice (per non dire nazista), all'adozione temporanea di 6 marmocchi "reduci di guerra". Personaggi incredibili, uno stile di scrittura veloce con dialoghi fulminanti e note di colore della società americana a cavallo delle 2 guerre fanno di questo libro un piccolo gioiello che consiglio a tutti di leggere.

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    Marco Jaxxwaxx said on Jan 11, 2012 | Add your feedback

  • Nice reading, really funny....The character of Auntie Mame is terrific

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    fpav said on May 19, 2011 | 1 feedback

  • A funny tale about a boy and his extravagant aunt, in New York between 1929 and the early 50s. I really enjoyed it!

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    Ecila82 said on Nov 14, 2010 | Add your feedback

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