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Wake Up, Sir!

A Novel

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Wake Up, Sir!

By: Jonathan Ames
Narrated by: Jonathan Ames
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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...

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©2004 Jonathan Ames (P)2006 Audible, Inc. Absurdist Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Comedy

Critic Reviews

  • A 2004 Notable Book of the Year (The New York Times Book Review)

"[An] inventive romp. (The New Yorker)
"Ames' tale zips along, brimming with comedy and wild details, proving him to be a winning storyteller and a consummate, albeit exceedingly eccentric, entertainer." (Publishers Weekly)
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entertaining. poor alan, what a hapless schlub! thank goodness he has the faithful jeeves at his side

funny

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Wonderfully read by the author, not so much deadpan as moribund pan. More slow moving and reflective than the Wodehouse books but still enjoyable with plenty of bons mots. Starts well, but the central section gets repetitive and tedious as Jeeves runs out of different ways of agreeing with his master. Then Jeeves disappears altogether until the last act. Picks up towards the end.

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