Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade (Auntie Mame, #1)

Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade (Auntie Mame, #1)

Patrick Dennis

Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 5.0
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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 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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  • amna.exe
    Mar 30, 2025
    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 5.0
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    My new favourite book. Genuinely surprised that Auntie Mame's character was written by a man. Absolutely wonderful and amusing.

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