Wake Up, Sir!
by:
Jonathan Ames (author)
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...
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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!
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780743449076 (074344907X)
Publish date: July 5th 2005
Publisher: Scribner
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
I had fun with this book. I've never read any of Ames' other stuff (although I'm familiar with his tv show "Bored to Death") and I've never read any Wodehouse - but I sort of knew what I was getting into and it didn't disappoint. It went a little wobbly at times and I think, perhaps, it could've b...