Book description
The witty duo from Blue Heaven invade the entourage of a tasteless real estate/media magnate, attempt to turn his talentless wife into a chanteuse, and vie for the affections of a suave magazine editor, in this deftly delicious comedy of bad manners, financial skullduggery, and romantic infighting.
Why read it?
2 authors picked Putting on the Ritz as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Thirty-five years after this book was published, I still smile thinking of it and the first time I read it in 1991.
It was/is a laugh-out-loud farce and was an inspiration to me to read gay and straight comic characters written so effortlessly.
Every so often, I check to see if Joe Keenan has another novel in the works, as he has written only three. I’ll be the first in line to buy a copy.
From Bruce's list on young gay or bisexual men coming-of-age.
Joe Keenan’s madcap farces made me want to write my own. They’re the kind of books that make you laugh so hard you just have to read lines from it to the person sitting next to you (preferably someone you know because strangers on mass transit don’t appreciate that kind of thing). As zany as they are, his novels are rooted in the real, doing-whatever-you-can-to-make-it lives of theater people. So they’re not as far-fetched as you might think. Life in New York City really can be that wildly glamorous. And hilarious.
From Marc's list on what life in the theatre is really like.
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