Funnymen

Proof copy. 8vo. Pp. 414, [2 (blank)]. Pictorial stiff card wraps.

With publisher's review material laid-in.

Billed as "fiction's first mockumentary," the oral history of a fictional entertainment duo – modelled on Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis – that supposedly delighted America in the immediate post-war years. "Ted (son of Joseph) Heller's follow-up to his debut, Slab Rat, is a masterpiece of comic invention. Told through the multiple voices of managers, minders, relatives and wives, it is a wise-cracking, rib-tickling and ultimately tear-jerking tale of fame, friends and foes." –Elena Seymenliyska, The Guardian