The Bishop's Jaegers
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What begins as a perfectly ordinary fog-bound evening descends into gloriously anarchic chaos in Thorne Smith's The Bishop's Jaegers, a screwball comedy of mistaken identities, moral inversions, and thoroughly improper behaviour. A prim young man named Peter Van Dyck finds himself stranded at a nudist colony alongside a roguish bishop, a scheming vamp, and an assortment of magnificently eccentric characters, all of whom conspire — wittingly or not — to upend every social convention Peter holds dear. Smith, celebrated as one of America's great comic fantasisits of the 1930s, writes with a breezy, irreverent wit that skewers middle-class prudishness and the absurdity of social propriety with surgical precision. His prose crackles with innuendo, slapstick, and a warm, almost affectionate cynicism that transformed him into a cult favourite long after his death. The Bishop's Jaegers stands as a testament to his singular talent for wrapping genuinely subversive ideas inside laugh-out-loud farce — leaving the reader to wonder, long after the final page, just who among us is truly wearing any clothes at all.
Author: Thorne Smith
Format: Paperback
Genre: Humour
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What begins as a perfectly ordinary fog-bound evening descends into gloriously anarchic chaos in Thorne Smith's The Bishop's Jaegers, a screwball comedy of mistaken identities, moral inversions, and thoroughly improper behaviour. A prim young man named Peter Van Dyck finds himself stranded at a nudist colony alongside a roguish bishop, a scheming vamp, and an assortment of magnificently eccentric characters, all of whom conspire — wittingly or not — to upend every social convention Peter holds dear. Smith, celebrated as one of America's great comic fantasisits of the 1930s, writes with a breezy, irreverent wit that skewers middle-class prudishness and the absurdity of social propriety with surgical precision. His prose crackles with innuendo, slapstick, and a warm, almost affectionate cynicism that transformed him into a cult favourite long after his death. The Bishop's Jaegers stands as a testament to his singular talent for wrapping genuinely subversive ideas inside laugh-out-loud farce — leaving the reader to wonder, long after the final page, just who among us is truly wearing any clothes at all.