{"product_id":"2026100012905-secondhand-the-bishops-jaegers","title":"The Bishop's Jaegers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat 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.\n\nSmith, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50948325474523,"sku":"2026100012905-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/43cce8fc-b61b-475c-b302-3dccac929e8b.png?v=1793104718","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100012905-secondhand-the-bishops-jaegers","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}