The Joyous Season
Auntie Mame author Patrick Dennis offers a sarcastic send-up of the holidays in The Joyous Season. First published in 1964, the novel stars 10-year-old Kerry ("which is short for Kerrington, for cripes sake, spelled with a K and an E and not with a C and an A") and his younger sister Missy New York sophisti-kids who move to Massachusetts after their parents decide to divorce on Christmas Day. Ages 12-up.Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.