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Cocktail Time (1958)

by P.G. Wodehouse(Favorite Author)

4.13 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0393345602 (ISBN13: 9780393345605)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

series

Uncle Fred

review 1: A brazil nut knocking off a topper … leads to the publication of an explosive bestseller from the least expected quarters. An author who wants to disassociate himself from it and a nephew ready to take credit with an eye on raking in the moolah: Add a conniving couple, some sundered hearts and an uncle who wants to spread sweetness and light … what we have is a Cocktail Time! Wodehouse scripts another scintillating tale, full of twists and turns and memorable characters. A must read, if only once.
review 2: The fifth Earl of Ickenham is easily bored. And he has taken it upon himself to spread sweetness and light amongst all those of his acquaintance, or as some of those acquaintances might put it: meddle and interfere in others' business. This book starts... more with Lord Ickenham shooting a brazil nut at his half brother-in-law 'Beefy' Bastable with a catapult. From then, a long, improbably Wodehousian chain of events is set in motion with, as they say, hilarious consequences.This book is what happens when an actually clever upper class person gets to be the hero of the story. You get all the wit and madness of a Jeeves book, but with someone who doesn't have to be prodded along.Freddie Ickenham is a likeable character, sharp, but not so sharp that he doesn't let tenuous and improbable chains of events build up before they are neatly untangled and all set straight, with the usual Wodehousian flair.This is the first of Wodehouse's 'Uncle Fred' books that I've read, but on the strength of this one, I'll certainly be searching out others. Marvellous stuff. less

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