| Title: |
Blue Heaven |
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| Author: |
Joe Keenan |
| Published by: |
Penguin, 1988 |
| ISBN: |
0-14-010764-9 [trade paper, 279 pages] |
Gilbert Selwyn, a young man possessed of boundless charm
and an allergy to employment, has devised a plan to wring a nice pile of
loot from his mother's newest (and obscenely wealthy) husband. This scheme,
simply put, is to get married for the gifts. But Gilbert, who's gay, needs
a fiancee . . . 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 Cavanaugh,
Gilbert's longtime friend, former lover, and highly strung Best Man. And
enter, finally, the Cellinis, Gilbert's huge internecine step-family, whose
fortune has not been amassed as innocently as Gilbert first believed.
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 toward what could be the wedding of the season.
