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May 22, 2011
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This is w Wodehouse novel I did not quite expect. Set mostly in USA; the roaring 20s in New York (mostly), this is almost chick lit, 1920s Wodehouse chick lit with wannabe theater moguls, dog fights (best dog fight in the history of literature, boxers and where no male character seems to have a brain of any sort. The heroine is just that, a female main character of somewhat heroic nature, and unlike other Wodehouse main characters is actually quite bright even if too gallant for her own good.. S
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The Adventures of Sally seems oddly familiar. It isn't a retelling of Jill the Reckless, published two years earlier, but it certainly shares a lot with that novel including occasionally I think some verbiage. It somewhat answers the question of what Jill would read like if it lost 35,000 extraneous words and the description and pith were sharpened. It ends up being an enjoyable romantic comedy but nothing more.
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