Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis

Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis

With a wit as sharp as a vodka stinger and a heart as free as her spirit, Auntie Mame burst onto the literary scene in 1955--and today remains one of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary fiction.

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 and 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.

Follow the rollicking adventures of this unflappable flapper as seen through the wide eyes of her young, impressionable nephew and discover anew or for the first time why Mame has made the world a more wonderful place.

"Outrageous, hilarious, ribald, sophisticated, slapsatiric." The Denver Post

Edward Everett Tanner III (1921-1976) was the pen name of Patrick Dennis, the fictional narrator of Auntie Mame and Little Me. Tanner wrote sixteen novels in total, the most of which were national bestsellers, and was one of the most eccentric, acclaimed, and widely read authors of the 1950s and 1960s.

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ISBN 13	9780767908191
ISBN 10	0767908198
Title	Auntie Mame
Author	Patrick Dennis
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)
Year published	2001-09-11
Number of pages	320
Prizes	Short-listed for Book Sense Book of the Year Award (Rediscovery) 2003
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.