The Joyous Season

Patrick Dennis. Green Mansion Press, $21.95 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-9714612-2-2

Auntie Mame author Patrick Dennis offers a sarcastic send-up of the holidays in The Joyous Season. First published in 1964, the novel stars 10-year-old Kerry (""which is short for Kerrington, for cripes sake, spelled with a K and an E and not with a C and an A"") and his younger sister Missy New York sophisti-kids who move to Massachusetts after their parents decide to divorce on Christmas Day. (Oct.)

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