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My Lucky Star

by Joe Keenan

Series: Gilbert and Philip (3)

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Info:	Little, Brown and Company (2006), Hardcover, 368 pages
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The best of Joe Keenan's three novels is absolutely hilarious with the three friends, Gilbert, Phillip and Claire in another twisted, confounding mixup, this time in Hollywood. A wonderful examination of the extremes that the famous might go to in saving their reputations and careers and how our three heros, struggling to have careers, maneuver through the backstabbing Hollywood scene. (

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startredder | Sep 22, 2007 |

I'm gonna be honest - I was disappointed. It's been a good 10 years since the previous two books in this series came out, but I didn't feel this book was anywhere near hilarious, as those were. I'd read another of these folks, but not one set in Hollywood. (

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Series (with order)

Gilbert and Philip (3)

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Philip Cavanaugh

Gilbert Selwyn

Claire Simmons

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Lambda Literary Award (Humor, 2006)

Thurber Prize for American Humor (2007)

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For Chris and David Lloyd

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It is never a happy moment in the life of a struggling artist when some fresh assault on his fragile dignity compels him finally and painfully to concede that Failure has lost its charm.

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0434014079, Paperback)

"Joe Keenan fills MY LUCKY STAR with the kind of zanytwists he perfected in Frasier." --TIME OUT When a pair of luckless New York writers gets lured to Hollywood and hitsit big virtually overnight, mayhem on a grand scale ensues--a vortex ofhilarity that encompasses everything from a Beverly Hills spa catering tostars' most secret needs to a blackmailing scheme that threatens to disruptthe Oscars. This enormously entertaining, exuberantly naughty novel sendsup Hollywood pretense higher than it's ever been sent before.

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