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This is completely off topic...but i need help. I always wander into Barnes & Noble/Borders and find books that are interesting and then forget the titles/authors.
There is one in particular that I have been searching for the past years. The book was about a young boy having to live with his eccentric aunt. I know it is a well-known book that was written in the 60s/70s perhaps. Does anyone have any clue to the title/author? |
In what country does it take place? Children's or adults' book? Any further hints as to its content? Fiction or memoir? (P.S. Are you sure it was a boy and that it didn't take place in the USA?)
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Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis?
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I think you may be looking for Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis.
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Yes!!! That's it! Thanks so much!
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An orphaned boy ( believed to be the author- Patrick Dennis) goes to live with his free-spirited aunt.
Curious-How could you search for years for a book that was a successful play and film? |
Well, there are three children rather than just one boy but it might be The Growing Summer by
Noel Streatfeild. The children go to stay with an eccentric aunt in Ireland. I think that the American distributors dumbed down the title to something like The Magic Summer. Not so very young a boy but it might also be Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene |
precisely because i didnt know the title or the author.
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I think that book is much older. It was a movie even before the 60s.
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Rosiland Russell played Auntie Mame and the title song, Mame, swept the country.
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HI
just to clarify a little the book by P Dennis was 'Auntie Mame' as was the non-musical film with Ros. Russell Then, it was turned into a Jerry Herman musical called 'Mame', with the hit song. Then it was an awful imo musical film with Lucille Ball. |
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