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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780767915854
ISBN number: 0767915852
Label: Broadway
Manufacturer: Broadway
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 336
Printing Date: September 16, 2003
Publishing house: Broadway
Release Date: September 16, 2003
Sale Popularity Level: 181359
Studio: Broadway
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In 1955, Auntie Mame spent 112 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, but that was only her very first act. Three years later, thousands of fans celebrated her reappearance in a novel of international hijinks.
Narrated once again by Mame’s fictional deadpan nephew, Around the World with Auntie Mame takes readers on a first-rate if not always first-class voyage to intriguing locales around the world—including Paris, London, and Lebanon. Setting sail aboard the Normandie, Mame soon finds herself pursued by Interpol and rescued from seminudity by a pack of Irish wolfhounds. Next, Mame’s antics lead her to a gunrunning ship on the eve of World War II, causing luxury accommodations to be forfeited for the sake of action. But not to worry—she doesn’t rough it for long. If you thought her Manhattan parties were superb, you’ll want to put yourself on the guest list for her splashy Venice bash featured in this equally tipsy and titillating romp.
Also included is an account of Mame’s stopover at the “Mother Bloor Communal Farm” in rural Russia, an irreverently comic chapter suppressed when the book was very first published at the height of the Red Scare.
New acquaintances and lifelong fans of Auntie Mame will all relish this second round of even more outrageous escapades with the world’s most glamorous globetrotter.
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Since the very first time I read this book, now nearly four decades ago, I've been haunted by the notion that, originally, this was part of AUNTIE MAME and was edited out due to length. Certainly it fits;Mame and Patrick are sailing on the Normandie after yet another hysterical episode. And then the book jumps ahead to a coming war and their apparent return from this trip around the world. No one is ever going to be able to confirm this but for afficianados of La Mame, it's an interesting thought.
Equally troubling is that the character of Mame seems to have changed on that voyage and in ways that are not consistent with how we very first came to know and adore her. She's susceptible to confidence people, something anithetical to Mame in New York. That fabulous star of stage, Vera Charles as well as faithful Ito (the Babcocks have an amusing cameo in Paris) are along for the ride, but it's a bumpy one. Yes, the episodes are funny, but not as funny as the very first time we met her. These are slap dash, harder edged, politically and socially inept vignettes which aren't consistent with our wise, worldly friend from book one. Editing would have helped-another reason I feel this was part of the original. And, sadly, she seems a bit man crazy. (One would have thought she'd learned that lesson with Brian O'Bannion in AUNTIE MAME) But the men...an Austrian noble and rabid Nazi, a fortune hunter, an old relative. She's too smart, or was in the previous book, not to see through these people.
On the plus side, it's usually funny and that is most of the book. I'm carping only because I want it to be just a notch or two better. Patrick Dennis has a lovely time skewering people just as before. I recommend, highly, her contributions to the 'Middle Eastern powder Keg' if only for its' smack on portrayal of expatriates at their very worst.
Would tighter editing have helped a bit? Maybe. After the runaway sucess of AUNTIE MAME this was as close to a guaranteed sucess as could have been possible and it was. Briefly. Another extraneous fact that diminished its' charm was that by then the antic Aunt had hit Broadway, and then the movies, and back to Broadway and yet another movie. (One critic, after smacking his lips over Angela Lansbury as the singing Mame, wrote that the only thing it hadn't yet been was a comic strip.)
Too, Patrick Dennis (nee Edward Tanner) always had fun writing vivid social comedy, sometimes too social and less comdedic. AROUND THE WORLD WITH AUNTIE MAME suffers a bit from that. But buy it, read it, laugh along and keep it with AUNTIE MAME on your bookshelf, they belong together, just don't expect the trip around the world to ultimately be as satisfying. A funny sort of hollow. Much like the Bad Ship Lesbos on which the journey ends.
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Around the World with Auntie Mame is a superb set of stories with astonishingly timeless scoial observations. Mame takes on all the phonies, crooks, nouveaux riches and hypocrites, while staying very human and fallible herself. It is a crime that the Escapade in the Soviet Union story was suppressed when this book was very first published. The story is clearly anti-communist and incredibly revealing about the corruption that lies at the heart of the Great Proletariat. It's a terible thing when hysteria leads to censorship.
I was initailly wary of Dennis' anti-German slant (the book was written in the post-war years, after all), and how he seemingly buys into the famous myth that the Austrians were innocent victims, but the story of Mame and the Tyrolean Schloss shows how Dennis is no dummy. This book is a wonderful collection of hilarious tales: a catalogue of human frailties that remains fresh and true today.
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Four stars only because the original "Auntie Mame" is a five-star book and this sequel, while flat-out fabulous, is just a notch below. Don't get me wrong -- Around the World with Auntie Mame is one hellacious hoot from the pen of America's most underrated wit and social critic, Patrick Dennis. But so what if it's just a teensy bit less fresh and original than Mame One?: a four-star Patrick Dennis book is worth a library of books by anybody else. So what are you waiting for, Agnes? -- buy it -- for yourself and for all your bosom buddies!
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I just finished Richard Tyler Jordan's delightful, illuminating and photo-filled new (2004) paperback original, BUT DARLING, I'M YOUR AUNTIE MAME: THE AMAZING HISTORY OF THE WORLD'S FAVORITE MADCAP AUNT and I learned so much about how the Auntie Mame character was created by Patrick Dennis (a.k.a. Edward Tanner) and how she evolved from the novel to a Broadway play, smash hit movie with Rosalind Russell, Tony Award-winning Broadway musical starring Angela Lansbury and finally a movie musical starring Lucille Ball. That book sent me back to the original material and I'm glad it did, because both AUNTIE MAME and AROUND THE WORLD WITH AUNTIE MAME are gems worth reading. The bonus, long-supressed chapter set in Russia is a treat for all Dennis fans!
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Even we Mame maniacs who've howled our way through "Auntie Mame" and its sequel haven't been able to read the entire "Around the World with Auntie Mame"--until now. The new paperback edition includes, "Auntie Mame in Mother Russia," a chapter set in the former Soviet Union, suppressed when the book was very first published in 1958.
Of course, reading this sidesplitting chapter with a pair of today's eyes, it's hard to see just how subversive Patrick Dennis was considered to be... But no matter, this chapter sparkles like a fine gem retrieved from a dusty safe-deposit box.
Even if you already own "Around the World," it's worth buying this new paperback edition for this chapter alone. Eric Myers, author of Patrick Dennis' biography "Uncle Mame," and Dr. Michael Tanner, Dennis' droll son and guardian of his literary estate, deserve much credit for bringing Patrick Dennis to the attention of new and old generations of readers.
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