Topper
by Thorne Smith
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Author: Thorne SmithEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1988-09-09
ISBN: 0891904484
Publisher: Amereon Ltd
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Book Review: How a staid banker learns to really live from two ghosts.
Summary: 5 Stars
Topper is the delightfully riotious story of a staid, quietly frustrated banker who buys a fancy sports car haunted by it's previous owners, who died when they crashed it on their way home from a party. Since death did NOT part them, the two gang up on poor "Toppy", turning a good man bad the right way. He learns to drink to excess, lie to his wife, and blow his staid, "pillar of the community" reputation all to hell. Thorne Smith creates delightful characters with great depth and longing, and writes about them in a witty, incredibly insightful, and downright hilarious fashion. I've read all his books, and recommend them all highly, with "Night Life of the Gods" being my all-time favorite book. When you read Thorne Smith, you WILL laugh out loud! I highly recommend "Topper" to anyone who enjoys a good laugh, and a flock of cocktails!
Summary of Topper
"[Thorne Smith] created the modern American ghost. A ghost with style and wit. A ghost that haunts us still."--The New York Times
Thorne Smith is a master of urbane wit and sophisticated repartee. Topper, his best-known work, is the hilarious, ribald comedy on which the hit television show and movie (starring Cary Grant) were based.
It all begins when Cosmo Topper, a law-abiding, mild-mannered bank manager, decides to buy a secondhand car, only to find it haunted by the ghosts of its previous owners--the reckless, feckless, frivolous couple who met their untimely demise when the car careened into an oak tree. The ghosts, George and Marion Kerby, make it their mission to rescue Topper from the drab "summer of suburban Sundays" that is his life--and they commence a series of madcap adventures that leave Topper, and anyone else who crosses their path, in a whirlwind of discomfiture and delight.
As enchanting today as it was when first published in 1926, Topper has set the standard in American pop culture for such mischievous apparitions as those seen in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Heaven Can Wait, Beetlejuice, and Bewitched.
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