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Laughing Gas

'A lifelong treat' Simon Garfield, Esquire

A P.G. Wodehouse novel

Joey Cooley is a golden-curled child film star, the idol of American motherhood. Reginald, Third Earl of Havershot, is a boxing blue on a mission to save his wayward cousin from the fleshpots of Hollywood. Both are under anaesthetic at the dentists when something strange happens — and their identities are swapped in the ether.

Suddenly Joey can use his six-foot frame to get his own back on his Hollywood persecutors. But Reggie has to endure everything Joey had to put up with in the horrible life of a child star — including kidnap.

Laughing Gas is Wodehouse's brilliantly funny take on the 'If I were you' theme — a wry look at the dangers of getting what you wish for in the movie business and beyond.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 304
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-09-951412-1
  • EAN
  • 9780099514121
  • Release date
  • 2008