Patrick Dennis wrote comic fiction about eccentric families, social performance and respectable people dragged into increasingly absurd situations. Auntie Mame follows the wealthy, theatrical Mame Dennis as she raises her orphaned nephew Patrick through changing fashions, financial disaster and a succession of unconventional adventures. Little Me, presented as the supposed autobiography of actress Belle Poitrine, parodies celebrity memoir through staged photographs and outrageous career episodes. Dennis's books move quickly from one set piece to another, with dialogue, camp exaggeration and social satire more important than realism. His work fits mid-century American comedy, queer-adjacent camp classics and theatrical comic novels, particularly for readers who enjoy larger-than-life characters and satire of status, money and conventional respectability. Read more Less
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