![]() ![]() Patrick Dennis (1921-76) was one of the most widely read American authors of the 1950s and '60s. Turned into a play, a musical, and adapted into a 1974 film directed by Gene Saks and starring Lucille Ball, Auntie Mame is the most magnificent and hilarious work of love, style, wit and the life of a very modern Aunt. While prone to dramatic costumes, flights of fancy and expensive whims - not least her lives as a muse and a Southern belle - Auntie Mame will raise Patrick the only way she knows how: with madcap humour, mishaps, unforgettable friends and lots and lots of love. ' When shy young heir Patrick is orphaned at the tender age of ten, the only family he has is his wealthy and eccentric aunt, a fabulous New York socialite named Mame. Her helter-skelter charm was, after all, notorious. ![]() That her amazing personality would attract me, just as it had seduced thousands of others, was a foregone conclusion. ![]() 'Auntie Mame and I learned to love one another in as brief and painless a period as possible. Inspired by his own eccentric aunt, Patrick Dennis's Auntie Mame is a madcap comedy, published with an afterword by Matteo Codignola in Penguin Modern Classics. ![]()
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