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Description for Putting on the Ritz
Paperback. Keynote/Publisher's Comments The gloriously funny sequel to Blue Heaven. Num Pages: 352 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 255. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear. Minor tear to the bottom of the spine
Following the hilarious debacle of Blue Heaven, librettist Philip Cavanaugh has again allowed himself to be drawn into a fiendish money-making plan by his friend and ex-lover Gilbert Selwyn. Gilbert has fallen in with Tommy Parker, a veritable Adonis and a magazine editor employed by media magnate Boyd Larkin. Philip's brief is to spy on Larkin's greatest adversary Peter Champion. To this end Philip enters the Champion entourage - a clan so poisonous they make the Borgias look Amish - with his songwriting partner Claire. Together they are to turn Champion's talentless wife Ilsa (a woman ... Read more
Following the hilarious debacle of Blue Heaven, librettist Philip Cavanaugh has again allowed himself to be drawn into a fiendish money-making plan by his friend and ex-lover Gilbert Selwyn. Gilbert has fallen in with Tommy Parker, a veritable Adonis and a magazine editor employed by media magnate Boyd Larkin. Philip's brief is to spy on Larkin's greatest adversary Peter Champion. To this end Philip enters the Champion entourage - a clan so poisonous they make the Borgias look Amish - with his songwriting partner Claire. Together they are to turn Champion's talentless wife Ilsa (a woman ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Arrow
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099435051
SKU
KAK0011358
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Joe Keenan
A playwright and lyricist, Joe Keenan received his M.F.A in Musical Theatre from New York University. His musical The Times received the Richard Rodgers Development Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters as well as the Kleban Award from the Ed Kleban Foundation. His first novel, Blue Heaven - which introduced the characters of Philip Cavanaugh, ... Read more
Reviews for Putting on the Ritz
made me howl with laughter - literally
David Leavitt
Keenan writes like an uncloseted Coward. Not high-minded satire but somethign much rarer - pure-hearted camp
Voice Literary Supplement
David Leavitt
Keenan writes like an uncloseted Coward. Not high-minded satire but somethign much rarer - pure-hearted camp
Voice Literary Supplement