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Where's Poppa?
“A funny, bawdy, nasty book . . . I laughed out loud all the way through.” –Joseph Heller
“Four times in my life I laughed out loud while reading a book. This is the fifth!” –Carl Reiner
“I fell down in a fit of jealous rage and laughter, crumpled up, held my sides, pulled myself together, and burned my joke file.” –Phyllis Diller
When Gordon Hocheiser promised his dying father he’d take care of Momma, he didn’t realize she’d never die. Twenty years after making that promise, Gordon’s law practice is in shambles and he’s at his wit’s end. Every sunrise he dons a gorilla suit, rampages into her room, and hopes she’ll drop dead from fright, but to no avail. Anytime Gordon is about to snap he calls his brother, Sid, who lives across Central Park. But running through Central Park at night to stop your brother from committing matricide comes with its own risks, and Sid finds he is as much running for his life as for his mother’s. Then one day Gordon meets Louise. Lovely Louise. If this relationship has any chance, Momma has got to go, even if that means breaking the promise he made to Poppa so many years ago and putting her in a . . .
Robert Klane’s tasteless novel Where’s Poppa? —along with his self-penned screen adaptation of the Carl Reiner-directed cult motion picture starring George Segal and Ruth Gordon—has been offending and entertaining connoisseurs of black comedy since its first publication in 1970. Brought back into print in 2017 by the antitastemakers at ANTIBOOKCLUB, Where’s Poppa? is now available for the first-time ever as an ebook, along with Klane’s other long-out-of-print, outrageous, and profoundly tasteless masterpieces The Horse Is Dead and Fire Sale .
“Four times in my life I laughed out loud while reading a book. This is the fifth!” –Carl Reiner
“I fell down in a fit of jealous rage and laughter, crumpled up, held my sides, pulled myself together, and burned my joke file.” –Phyllis Diller
When Gordon Hocheiser promised his dying father he’d take care of Momma, he didn’t realize she’d never die. Twenty years after making that promise, Gordon’s law practice is in shambles and he’s at his wit’s end. Every sunrise he dons a gorilla suit, rampages into her room, and hopes she’ll drop dead from fright, but to no avail. Anytime Gordon is about to snap he calls his brother, Sid, who lives across Central Park. But running through Central Park at night to stop your brother from committing matricide comes with its own risks, and Sid finds he is as much running for his life as for his mother’s. Then one day Gordon meets Louise. Lovely Louise. If this relationship has any chance, Momma has got to go, even if that means breaking the promise he made to Poppa so many years ago and putting her in a . . .
Robert Klane’s tasteless novel Where’s Poppa? —along with his self-penned screen adaptation of the Carl Reiner-directed cult motion picture starring George Segal and Ruth Gordon—has been offending and entertaining connoisseurs of black comedy since its first publication in 1970. Brought back into print in 2017 by the antitastemakers at ANTIBOOKCLUB, Where’s Poppa? is now available for the first-time ever as an ebook, along with Klane’s other long-out-of-print, outrageous, and profoundly tasteless masterpieces The Horse Is Dead and Fire Sale .
- GenresFiction
160 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1970
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July 15, 2012
Very funny book
March 1, 2011
An original stage play (and the basis of a 1970 film).
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June 28, 2013
One of the funniest novels I have ever read, and the movie was very funny too, although it could not capture the humor of the book :)
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