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by Joe Keenan
The luckless writing team of Philip Cavanaugh and Claire Simmons is lured to Hollywood by their shifty pal Gilbert's offer of an improbably high-profile screenwriting gig. The job proves even more ill-gotten than they'd feared, but just as Claire packs her bags, enter sexy megastar Stephen Donato, the monarch of Philip's fantasies and a man with a Problem. Stephen, secretly gay, has gotten wind of a memoir to be penned by his aunt Lily, a washed-up actress with more than enough TNT to blow the hinges off his closet. Philip, smitten, proposes a bargain: if they can write Stephen's next picture, Philip will do double duty as Lily's ghostwriter, providing Stephen a spy and an agent of influence in the enemy camp. What could go wrong? .... My Lucky Star sends up Hollywood pretense higher than it's ever been sent before.
'Starred review. In two earlier novels Keenan adapted and updated P.G. Wodehouse to his own original and side-splitting ends ... Hitherto marketed primarily to gay readers, Keenan deserves to win a large, appreciative audience of all sexual persuasions with this tour de force.' - PW.
'If the ghost of Noel Coward isn't pleased, Frasier's is.' - Booklist.
'Keenan freshens his obvious model, Noel Coward's drawing-room farces, by restoring the gay sex Coward had to edit out.' - Kirkus.
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