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by Thorne Smith (Author)
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  • Paperback: 150 pages
  • Publisher: Intl Business Pubns USA (9 Sep 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1438799349
  • ISBN-13: 978-1438799346
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Dark and snappy, 25 Nov 2002
By Monica Stiles (Croydon, Surrey United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Turnabout (Library Binding)
When I was about 20, someone lent me "Nightlife of the Gods" by Thorne Smith. I laughed so much, I had to stop reading it on the bus on the way to work. Then I went looking for more books by this author and discovered The Jovial Ghosts - which turned out to be the original of the American television series, Topper, which I had loved - with it's human and canine ghosts materialising and dematerialising and drinking gin non-stop.

When I found Turnabout, I didn't even try reading it on the bus. These books were written in the dark ages of prohibition - with its other side of over-indulgence and black humour. Turnabout is about a young married couple who row constantly about who has the hardest life - the man who goes to work or the woman who stays at home. Their uncle has given them a little Indian god and eventually this little god gets fed up with listening to their quarrels and decides to teach them a lesson. He changes their bodies around - the man in the woman's body and vice versa.

Now the woman goes to work, because that's where the man's body has to go to earn the money, and the man stays at home in his wife's body. The woman learns what it's like to be a man at work and the man has to deal with quite different problems, such as the man next door ...

This is the best of American pre-50's humour -very dark and very snappy. It reminds one of the dry one-liners from the black-and-white films of the period.

Perhaps the only good thing one can say about repressive government is that it seems to breed the freest humour.

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