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Original Title:	Blue Heaven
ISBN:	0099435047 (ISBN13: 9780099435044)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Gilbert Selwyn and Friends #1
Setting:	New York City, New York(United States)
Literary Awards:	Lambda Literary Award Nominee for Gay Men's Debut Fiction (1989)

Blue Heaven (Gilbert Selwyn and Friends #1) Paperback | Pages: 113 pages

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Title	:	Blue Heaven (Gilbert Selwyn and Friends #1)
Author	:	Joe Keenan
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 113 pages
Published	:	April 4th 2002 by Arrow (first published 1988)
Categories	:	Fiction. LGBT. Gay. Humor. GLBT. Queer. Comedy. Gay Fiction

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Meet Gilbert and Moira - the strangest couple to ever marry for each other's money. Living in New York in 1991 is Gilbert Selwyn, a young man possessed of boundless charm and an allergy to employment, who has devised a plan to wring a nice pile of loot from his mother's newest (and obscenely wealthy) husband. The scheme, simply put, is to get married for the gifts. But Gilbert, who's gay, needs a fiancée... Enter Moira Finch, a demonically conniving young woman whose own mother, having recently married the Duke of Dorsetshire, will contribute richly to the couple's receipts. Enter, too, Philip Cavanagh, Gilbert's longtime friend, former lover, and highly strung Best Man. And enter, finally, the Cellinis, Gilbert's huge internecine stepfamily, whose fortune has not been amassed as innocently as Gilbert first thought, and who conform rather more closely to Italian-American stereotypes than Gilbert would like to believe. As Gilbert, Moira, and Philip struggle to keep their plot under wraps, the scams get bigger and more perilous, deceit multiplies, and a wonderfully calamitous trail leads us towards what could be the wedding of the season.

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Ratings: 4.16 From 832 Users | 101 Reviews

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super fun read--witty, well-written, laugh-out-loud funny. story itself is quite clever, and you can just see the movie version in your head as you read because of the narrator's vivid, tongue-in-cheek descriptions.

If you're looking for a zippy read that sends up the materialistic excesses of New York in the 1980's and 1990's, this one might just be for you. (Some "spoilers"): A gay Gothamite, over the objections of his best friend, conspires with an Italian-American gal pal in a sham engagement -- so they can rake in the wedding presents, cash them in, and cancel the wedding ceremony at the very last minute. What could go wrong? This tale is all in the telling, and Joe Keenan is in rare form here. Highly

This madcap farce is just not hitting my funny bone at all. DNF @page 110

Oh what a raucous, calamitous delight this little book was 😂. Absolutely laugh out loud. If anyone needs an injection of light-heartedness in their life, pick up a copy of Blue Heaven.

This is an oldie but a goodie. The characters are funny, the situations are funny...Not much else to say about this one except I highly recommend it for a good chuckle.

a swiftly paced Wodehouse style farce set in Gay World. the author Joe Keenan is apparently a script writer for tv sitcoms - and it shows: the level of humor is unsurprisingly broad and stereotypical. lots and lots of so-called zingers, many that score, many that do not. but don't let any of that make you think that this is nothing less than pure enjoyment... there is a sparkling verve and polish to all of the amusing goings-on that make the novel a fun-filled pleasure. i laughed constantly and

At first I wasn't sure where this book was going. But it essentially boils down to a flamboyant scheming gay man pretends to get married to a flamboyant scheming straight woman to wrack up a load of gifts, get divorced and split the spoils.Each time the characters attempt to fix a previous error they make things even worse to the point where it just keeps escalating so I had no idea how it was all going to end without all major characters dead.The writing is like a gay Douglas Adams at times,