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About the Book

Alan Blair, the hero of Wake Up, Sir!, is a young, loony writer with numerous problems of the mental, emotional, sexual, spiritual, and physical variety. He's very good at problems. But luckily for Alan, he has a personal valet named Jeeves, who does his best to sort things out for his troubled master. And Alan does find trouble wherever he goes. He embarks on a perilous and bizarre road journey, his destination being an artists colony in Saratoga Springs. There Alan encounters a gorgeous femme fatale who is in possession of the most spectacular nose in the history of noses. Such a nose can only lead to a wild disaster for someone like Alan, and Jeeves tries to help him, but... Well, read the book and find out!

About the Author :
Jonathan Ames is the author of nine books including The Extra Man, I Love You More than You Know and the graphic novel The Alcoholic. He also created the hit HBO comedy Bored to Death, starring Ted Danson, Zach Galifianakis and Jason Schwartzman, and has fought in two amateur boxing matches as "The Herring Wonder". He lives in New York.

Review :
What ho! A novel inspired by Jeeves and Wooster? First published in the US in 2004, this is the story of Alan Blair an alcoholic American writer with a weakness for British novelists and a host of problems spanning the mental to the spiritual and a very specific sexual fantasy. Fortunately, he has a valet named Jeeves to help when things go awry. But does he even exist? It's a Necker Cube of a book in that it can be either extremely funny or extremely sad, depending on the face that presents itself to you as you read (it is of course both, and everyone who bought this book on my recommendation has told me they loved it) This gleefully knowing mash-up of Wodehouse and literary fiction makes me smile every time I remember it Superb and audacious... the word "hilarious" seems inadequate. The novel is extremely funny but it is also sad and poignant, and almost incredibly clever. A picaresque tale with pratfalls aplenty Fiendishly funny A rip roaring delight... A cauldron of wit, myriad themes and hilarity... 'Wake Up, Sir' is a genuinely brilliant novel, a neatly crafted slice of literary chaos with some heart-warming tenderness added to the mix. A bizarre romp Too funny for the canon of high literature, the book is too brilliant to be mere diversionary humor Jonathan Ames has a brilliant way with words and summons the ghost of PG Wodehouse with almost genius (apparent) effortlessness... [he] never, not for one page, forgets to be very, very funny It is hard to convey the hilarity of this novel in just a few words... The prose is littered with philosophical musings... There are passages that will have you laughing out loud... A clever and amusing book. It's weird, it's clever, it's funny This isn't just an enjoyable pastiche of Wodehouse but also a clever reimagining of his oeuvre in the present day Ames is every bit the rightful heir to Wodehouse's legacy of razor-sharp turns of phrase and acutely funny social observation... Jonathan Ames has done that rare thing of producing a pastiche that overreaches the status of an imitation Frequently hilarious... Ames's mastery of the Wodehouseian idiom is total; it's hard to believe that Bertie Wooster's legions of admirers won't find much to enjoy here... The best Jeeves and Wooster novel Saul Bellow never wrote Clever, ingenious and really, really funny Jonathan Ames's latest comic novel is so brilliant and charming that any description of it is bound to be impossibly dull by comparison Amid the hilarity [is] a deep pathos... This is an audacious more-than-pastiche A Wodehouse novel for the recovery era What do you get when you cross Carry On, Jeeves with Portnoy's Complaint? . . . Jonathan Ames's very funny new novel, Wake Up, Sir! The X-rated Woody Allen Ames is a remarkable comic writer. He excels at punching out hilarious monologues on subjects ranging from nose fetishes to the planks of Buddhism Ames is a considerable misanthropic talent, even if he does hail from over the pond. What ho, in all senses of the phrase. Cause for celebration... As Jeeves himself might prompt Ames, 'Carry on, sir!' Pungent and hilarious, if completely off the deep end


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781782271376
  • Publisher: Pushkin Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Pushkin Press
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1782271376
  • Publisher Date: 21 May 2015
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)


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