{"product_id":"books-my-lucky-star-by-joe-keenan","title":"My Lucky Star","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this hilarious, laser-sharp comedy, the Emmy-winning writer and producer of Frasier sends up Hollywood pretense higher than it's ever been sent before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Publishers Weekly: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStarred Review.\u003c\/em\u003e In two earlier novels, \u003cem\u003eBlue Heaven \u003c\/em\u003e(1988) and \u003cem\u003ePutting on the Ritz\u003c\/em\u003e (1991), Keenan adapted and updated P.G. Wodehouse to his own original and side-splitting ends. Now, after a long hiatus largely spent as a writer and producer on the TV show \u003cem\u003eFrasier\u003c\/em\u003e, Keenan has produced a comic masterpiece that in intricacy of plotting and brilliance of language rivals the best of Wodehouse. Keenan sends his down-on-their-luck heroes--ordinary guy and narrator Philip Cavanaugh; Philip's unscrupulous pal and former lover, Gilbert Selwyn; and their brainy friend, Claire Simmons--to Hollywood, where Philip winds up helping aging has-been movie star, Lily Malenfant, pen her scandalous memoirs. In fact, Philip has been hired as a spy by Lily's more successful actress sister, Diana, and Diana's son, Stephen Donato, a closeted male action star, who both have good reason to fear the dirt Lily plans to dish. Enter the boys' nemesis from \u003cem\u003eBlue Heaven\u003c\/em\u003e, Moira Finch, and their fortunes plummet in a series of misadventures involving blackmail, male prostitutes, impersonating a police officer, and a sex act caught on videotape that's as audacious as it is hilarious. By the end, a vindictive DA thinks he has Philip and Gilbert at his mercy, but of course he didn't reckon with Claire, who comes up with a solution to their troubles worthy of that which Jeeves uses to save Bertie's neck in \u003cem\u003eThe Code of the Woosters\u003c\/em\u003e. Hitherto marketed primarily to gay readers, Keenan deserves to win a large, appreciative audience of all sexual persuasions with this tour de force. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53674581557521,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780316060196.jpg?v=1781534225","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-my-lucky-star-by-joe-keenan","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}