- Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (7 Dec 1978)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140020497
- ISBN-13: 978-0140020496
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 940,796 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour.' Stephen Fry
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Mr J. Wellington Gedge is hoping for some peace and quiet while his wife takes herself off for a while. She, however, has invited numerous visitors to the chateau, to whom he shall have to play reluctant host.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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One of Wodehouse's best,
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This review is from: Hot Water: Complete & Unabridged (Audio Cassette)
This is one of my favourite Wodehouse novels. The Gedges have rented the Chateu Brissac in St. Rocque for the summer. J. Wellington Gedge loathes St. Rocque and wants only to go home to Glendale, California. He is horrified to discover that his ambitious wife has decided that he is to be American Ambassador to France, and to that end she has invited Senator Opal and his daughter Jane to stay at the Chateau. Mr. Gedge doesn't know that the Senator is only coming because he is being blackmailed by Mrs. Gedge. A chance encounter in a London hotel between the Opals and a young American, Packy Franklin, leads to Packy making his way to Saint Rocque to help the the Opals recover the letter with which Mrs Gedge is blackmailing the Senator, also to try and help Jane to be united with her secret fiancee, an impoverished writer called Blair Eggleston, who, greatly to his surprise, finds himself working as Senator Opal's valet. Meanwhile Packy is pretending to be the Vicomte de Blissac, an American crook called Gordon Carlisle is pretending to be the Duc de Pont-Aundermere, with a view to pinching Mrs Gedge's jewels, with the help of Soup Slattery, a safe cracker, and various other characters are helping to complicate matters. This is an absolutely wonderful story, gloriously convoluted, full of delightful characters and told in Wodehouse's inimitable style. This audio version is beautifuly read by Jonathan Cecil, who does a terrific job of portraying all the characters, I particularly like his irrascible Senator Opal, and his husky Soupl Slattery. A delight.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Hot Water (Mass Market Paperback)
"Hot Water" is one of PG Wodehouse's lesser known works of comic genius, but a work of comic genius it certainly is. A plot that is convoluted even by Plum's standards combine with the usual devastating one-liners, cast of lovable eccentrics and a fine introduction to create a top-notch read.
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This review is from: Hot Water (Hardcover)
Is Hot Water a classic along the lines of Uncle Fred in the Springtime or Right Ho, Jeeves? No. However, it still ranks among Wodehouse's finest. The usual verbal felicities take a back seat to an especially convoluted plot (the part where the hero attempts to blackmail two people by convincing each of them that they've murdered the other is a highlight) and an inspired scene featuring two Englishmen-impersonating-Frenchmen attempting to converse in their "native" tongue (the pens of their respective aunts feature prominently). Lie back, forget your worries, devour it in a single sitting and pause for a moment of regret that PG Wodehouse is no more. We shall not see his like again.
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