my little blue dress

[jfb]

I really enjoyed Bruno Maddox's book (according to the cover, "a novel a memoir a novel") My Little Blue Dress. It starts off as the hilariously implausible memoir of an Englishwoman born precisely at the turn of the century; later, we come to understand that it is implausible because it is being forged, desperately, by one Bruno Maddox, whose story takes over the book. Um, yeah, it's really funny. Here, read the New York Times review, which makes it sound like a bit too much of an inside joke, but otherwise conveys the gist better than I'm going to.

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I loved the novel My Little Blue Dress I've read it probably 20 times since I have had it for 2 years. Everytime I re-read it I can always find something to laugh at, and it never gets boring to me. I'm really glad that I found the book on a ship from Denmark to Sweden, if not, I would have been missing out on a very good book. I am glad you liked it. Take care. Melissa.

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Those things you run across at random and in strange places are the best.