AUNTIE MAME: An Irreverent Escapade in Biography

by Patrick Dennis ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

Flamboyant episodes in the life of the author and his Auntie Mame, who was his only living relative when he was left an orphan at 10, swing from the ludicrous to the unbelievable and sketch in a children's hour in six eight time. As his guardian, she exposed him to advanced, naked schooling and pursued him, with a pregnant secretary, to the boarding school his trustee demanded; she went through a variety of careers during the depression and made a wealthy marriage which took her into some Southern discomfort; widowed, she tried writing her autobiography, turned her Washington Square home over to her nephew and his college friends and landed him, and herself, in hot water at a Prom. She was successful too in breaking up his romance but she wasn't successful in rehabilitating six English refugee children during the late war and her fling on a Maine island turned sour -- although it did bring the author a bride. Auntie Mame apparently is continuing her devastations with his son. These frenetic capers have some hilarious moments and though they ask a lot of the reader's credulity, they do present a woman whose frivolity does not hide her fundamental soundness.

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Publisher: Vanguard

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 1, 1954

Categories: NONFICTION