Wake Up, Sir!: A Novel Reprint Edition

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Wake Up, Sir!: A Novel Reprint Edition

Author(s): Jonathan Ames (Author)

  • Publisher: Scribner
  • Publication Date: July 12, 2005
  • Edition: Reprint
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 352 pages
  • ISBN-10: 074344907X
  • ISBN-13: 9780743449076

Book Description

From the creator of the HBO series Bored to Death, the story of a young alcoholic writer and his personal valet, a hilarious homage to the Bertie and Jeeves novels of P.G. Wodehouse.

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!

Editorial Reviews

From The New Yorker

Alan Blair is a ne’er-do-well New Jerseyite who has failed to follow his first novel, “I Pity I,” published seven years ago, with a second. At thirty, he’s alcoholic, afraid of confronting the bellicose uncle with whom he lives, and would be penniless but for an accident settlement. His most treasured possessions are a collection of dubious sports coats and a valet, who just happens to be named Jeeves. As you’d expect, Jeeves is circumspect, judicious, and ready at hand; what he may not be is real. Ames’s inventive romp follows its hero into very un-Wodehousian territory—an artists’ colony in upstate New York (based, in withering detail, on Yaddo), where the action revolves around art, sex, and larceny. But Jeeves remains faithful throughout; no amount of bad behavior can wring from him a sterner rejoinder than “Very strange, sir.”
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The New Yorker

Review

Sarah Vowell author of The Partly Cloudy Patriot Very funny and altogether elegant, this tale of an endearing drunk and his unflappable manservant is a love story of sorts, but with an American twist. Here, a valet is just a friend one pays.

A. M. Homes author of Music for Torching Wake Up, Sir! takes on the big themes — the homosexual question, the Jewish question, the great American novel question, and more — in this witty, wild romp about a somewhat disturbed young writer. Comic and incredibly accurate: if anyone ever wanted to know what a writer has to endure in order to produce, Jonathan Ames has made it perfectly clear. Wake Up, Sir! is bound to delight.

Colson Whitehead author of John Henry Days A hilarious journey into one man’s labyrinthine neuroses, with day trips to compulsion and delusion. The perfect gift for anyone who has ever imagined having a manservant.

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