Patrick Dennis

//Patrick Dennis
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  • The sequel to Auntie Mame. Two and a half years after Mame takes Patrick and Pegeen's son Michael on a world tip - after promising to have him back in time for school - it's left to Patrick to explain to his irate wife that Mame is a very good world traveller: she just has a habit of not setting a date for her return. As random and enthusiastic post cards arrive, Patrick - for the first time - tells of his travels with Auntie  Mame before World War II...with one or two omissions.  After all, revealing how Mame almost destroyed the Folies Bergère, got embroiled in preparations for a Nazi coup in Austria or upset the routine of a rich community of expatriates in the mountains of Lebanon...Well, revealing these escapades is not ideal for calming an anxious mother! Mame's faithful manservant Ito and best friend Vera Charles also appear on the world stage as the travel stickers begin to plaster the baggage!
  • The madcap story of Patrick's adoption at the age of ten by his zany, unconventional Auntie Mame.  And life with Auntie Mame was never ever dull! Sparklingly witty, irreverently satirical, this 1955 novel manages to remain timelessly relevant in its cutting send-up of conformity and conservatism.  Patrick reminisces his way through life with Mame in the glittering Roaring Twenties, surviving the Great Depression, her marriage and widowhood, World War II and into his first forays into romance. Based on a real Aunt. Cover shows Rosalind Russell in the 1958 film of the same name.
  • When wealthy orphan Patrick is left to the care of his Auntie Mam during a cocktail party in the 1920s, he doesn't know what to expect.  Mame is not the average aunt - she's progressive in all things and loves to do battle against a stuffy education system, racial prejudice in the suburbs, phony intellectuals and snobbishness in general!  Meanwhile Patrick learns very rapidly about eugenics, Freud, speakeasies and how the word 'bastard' applies to Mr Babcock, the family lawyer.  As he grows up, Auntie Mame lovingly interferes in his romances to his embarrassment, discomfort and an eventual learning curve.  This novel has been made into a film twice, once with Rosalind Russell and then with Lucille Ball in the title role.
  • The hysterically funny inside story of the fictional Butterfield Administration of 30 days duration in 1909 as told by the 'First Lady', hostess of the Executive Mansion for that one month.  Among other things, she details her rise from genteel poverty in the Deep South to sudden wealth, her romances, glamour and travels; and then to love, marriage and the ultimate address - the White House!  Now a spry 94 years and a permanent 'guest' at the Boskey Dell Home for the Senile and Disturbed, Mrs Butterfield gives American political history a real shock treatment in this mock-memoir complete with photos.
  • Leander Starr, famous director and famous deadbeat, is on the run from alimony payments to two ex-wives, the Internal Revenue Department, financial support for his long unseen daughter and from the formidable and wealthy Mrs Worthington Pomeroy - who could put him back on Easy Street, if only he could stand the sight of her.  Enter an assortment of eccentric characters:  Mr Gruber of the Internal Revenue, Starr's leading lady, Catalina Ximinez, Starr's daughter Emily and a dashing con-man.  Another zany feast from the creator of Auntie Mame.
  • Belle Poitrine, (French for 'pretty bosom') born Mayble Sclumpfert, presents her hilarious, scandalous 'memoirs' of her life as star of the screen, theatre and television, here documented meticulously by Patrick Dennis.  All the world's a stage, and she's the most important player on it. At once coy and coercive,  she claws her way from Striver's Row to the silver screen. Recalling Belle's career, which ranged from portraying Anne Boleyn in Oh, Henry to roles in both Sodom and its sequel Gomorrah (not to mention the classic Papaya Paradise), Little Me serves up copious quanitites of husbands, couture, and Pink Lady cocktails, with international adventures and a murder trial to boot. Includes plenty of photos of 'Belle's' life and antics.
  • Originally published as Auntie Mame, this is the madcap story of Patrick's adoption at the age of ten by his zany, unconventional Auntie Mame.  And life with Auntie Mame was never ever dull! Sparklingly witty, irreverently satirical, this 1955 novel manages to remain timelessly relevant in its cutting send-up of conformity and conservatism.  Patrick reminisces his way through life with Mame in the glittering Roaring Twenties, surviving the Great Depression, her marriage and widowhood, World War II and into his first forays into romance. Based on a real Aunt. Back cover shows a scene from the film version with Lucille Ball as Mame.
  • Peace and goodwill are very thin on the ground when Kerry and Missy's parents' marriage explode on Christmas Day.  The kids are farmed out to their Grans' homes:  one a peaceful country home which ceases to be peaceful when the kids arrive and one a city apartment overflowing with  a dachshund and Ga-ga's many beaux!  Meanwhile, Mum is courted by her lawyer, who is the epitome of virtue and Dad blindly courts a man-mad, social climbing fashion magazine editor.  But all ends well when the kids take a hand in organising their parents' lives to their satisfaction!
  • Here is a veritable tossed salad of resort guests: old, young, eccentric, snobbish, pleasant and revolting and a good mix of employees  to create a real microcosm of human nature.  There's Miss Dukemer, the worldly wise cashier; Purcell, the Assistant Manager who likes ladies and liquor; the rich Mellott sisters who share their suite with a Siamese cat; the wealthy couple who order one small breakfast between them; the elevator boy who has a hair fetish; the newly weds who aren't sure what goes where and many more memorable and eccentric characters.