my little blue dress

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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.