Product Description

A deliciously, maliciously deft comedy of bad manners, high society, financial skulduggery, and romantic infighting. Roll over, Wilde, Wodehouse, and Noel Coward! Joe Keenan is back - and so are his ineffable creations, Philip Cavanaugh and Gilbert Selwyn, the hilariously witty duo who've turned social climbing into a form of terrorism. In Putting on the Ritz, they invade the entourage of a tasteless New York real-estate and media magnate, try to turn his talentless wife (a woman so rich she 'ovulates Faberge eggs') into a chanteuse, and vie for the affections of a paralyzingly suave magazine editor - in a novel whose comic complications, dizzying repartee, and cast of high-hat lowlifes are nothing less than irresistible.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #85355 in Books
• Published on: 2002-06-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

New York Times Book Review
‘Not one but two billionaires and a Rainbow Room full of socialites fall prey to Joe Keenan’s lampooning pen in his laugh-along novel.'

Voice Literary Supplement
‘Keenan writes like an uncloseted Coward…Not high-minded satire but – something much rarer – pure-hearted camp.’

Boston Globe
‘Keenan is witty – very witty, in fact… The novel barrels along, scattering champagne glasses and toppling reputations’