Blue Heaven - Softcover

Keenan, Joe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140107649 ISBN 13: 9780140107647

Publisher: Penguin, 1988

Synopsis

A new novel about the oddest couple ever to marry for people's money. Set in a contemporary New York and reminiscent of the comedies of Noel Coward and P.G. Wodehouse, "Blue Heaven" is the hilarious tale of a most unlikely couple and their brilliant plan to earn a fortune in gifts on their way to the altar. The cast includes Gilbert Selwyn-a usually well-intentioned young man who's gay, unemployed, and prone to the most catastrophic scheming; Moira Finch-his suspiciously charming and demonically conniving betrothed; Philip Cavanaugh-longtime friend and former lover of Gilbert's (also the best man and our raconteur); Claire Simmons-Philip's sensible (and quick-thinking) friend; the Duchess of Dorsetshire-Moira's beloved, but seldom seen Mummy; Freddi "The Pooch" Bombelli-Gilbert's gangster set-uncle, who falls head over heels for the Duchess. As "The Syndicate" 'Gilbert, Moira, Philip, and Claire) tries to keep the plan under cover, the scams get bigger and more outrageous, deceit multiplies and a wonderfully calamitous trail leads us toward what could be the society wedding of the season? P.G. Wodehouse never wrote anything quite like this. | Joe Keenan is a playwright and lyricist. He lives in New York City. [Description input by FreelancerFR]

About this title

Product Description:

Set in contemporary New York, Blue Heaven is the hilarious tale of a most unlikely couple and their brilliant plan to earn a fortune in gifts on their way to the altar.

Review:

"Blue Heaven... frothy, brilliantly coloured and packing a wicked satiric punch." (Los Angeles Magazine)

"Blue Heaven is a hilarious read. Quote me with pleasure." (Sir Ian McKellen)

"I adored it, laughing out loud on occasions as I read it at one sitting." (The Bookseller)

"Joe Keenan has put the ‘high’ back into high jinks... refreshingly effervescent" (New York Times)

"Joe Keenan's first novel plunges headlong into a world of deceit, avarice and violence and it's all a scream - Keenan maintains impressive control over a wonderfully ludicrous plot-packed full of lines that are well worth memorizing - and with a finale that is staggeringly, hilariously contrived." (Time Out)

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0140107649
• ISBN 13: 9780140107647
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288