My Lush Life

by Douglas McEwan

A delightfully bawdy and wickedly raucous "autobiography" of Tallulah Morehead, a 103-year-old movie star who was once a sex-crazed, drunken starlet, details her many escapades, rivals, sexual exploits, battles, addictions, and movie roles. Reprint.

Genres: Fiction

304 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Douglas McEwan has written comedy for radio, television and the stage. He has worked as an actor, an improviser and a stand-up comic, and was a Main Room emcee at the world-famous Comedy Store in West Hollywood, where he appeared with Robin Williams, Andy Kaufman, and many others. He is a “Confirmed Bachelor” and lives in North Hollywood, California with two cats who wish he would stop working on his next novel long enough to feed them.

Reviews

[Ken · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an over-the-top Auntie Mame type book written to appeal to a gay readership. Hell, even if you're not gay, but love wickedly funny, campy books, grab a copy of My Lush Life !

[Jerry · Rating 5 out of 5]

Talullah Morehead is a fabulous star! She is in her early hundreds when she sits down with the author to tell the story of her life over jusssssst a few marinis. She has met and "met" every major historical figure in the last century and married most of them; including Kaiser Wilhelm and Dracula. This book is absolutely ridiculous... but in a good way. Sometimes I pick this book up an just start reading it in the middle. This is definitely one of the most fun books I have ever read.

[Martin Turnbull · Rating 5 out of 5]

HILARIOUS! HILARIOUS! HILARIOUS! Often books like this start out well, and sometime finish well, but sag in the middle. Not this one! This is a laugh-out-loud riot from beginning to end. I'll read *anything* that Douglas McEwan writes!

[Megan · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you love Auntie Mame you should feel very safe picking this book up. One might not exactly call it camp, maybe camp parody.

[Leenda dela Luna · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book is about 10x too long. Same old jokes over & over & over. I made it past the half way point but I'm not going to waste any more of my life on it.