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Hunter Hawk has a knack for annoying his ultrarespectable relatives. He likes to experiment and he particularly likes to experiment with explosives. His garage-cum-laboratory is a veritable minefield, replete with evil-smelling clouds of vapor through which various bits of wreckage and mysteriously bubbling test tubes are occasionally visible. With the help of Megaera, a fetching nine-hundred-year-old lady leprechaun he meets one night in the woods, he masters the art (if not the timing) of transforming statues into people. And when he practices his new witchery in the stately halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Artsetting Bacchus, Mercury, Neptune, Diana, Hebe, Apollo, and Perseus loose on the unsuspecting citizenry of Prohibition-era New York-the stage is set for Thorne Smith at his most devilish and delightful.
Is The Night Life of the Gods appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 16 and up.
This 1931 comedic fantasy features magical hijinks, mythological gods causing chaos in Prohibition-era New York, and period-appropriate drinking references. Thorne Smith's trademark risqué humor includes mild sexual innuendo typical of pre-Code literature.
What to know going in
This book has mild violence, mild sexual content, and mild language. Content notes include substance abuse.
Who'll love this
Teens who enjoy irreverent humor and mythological chaos will love watching ancient Greek gods wreak havoc in 1930s New York City.