# Laughing Gas

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- Book: [Laughing Gas](https://www.bookquiver.com/pg-wodehouse/laughing-gas) ([Laughing Gas.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/pg-wodehouse/laughing-gas.md))
- Authors: [P.G. Wodehouse](https://www.bookquiver.com/pg-wodehouse)
- Publisher: arrow
- ISBN: 978-00-9951-412-1
- Pages: 304
- Published: 2008-10-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A lifelong treat ' Simon Garfield , Esquire A P. G. Wodehouse novel Joey Cooley is a golden-curled child film star, the idol of American motherhood. Reginald, Third Earl of Havershot, is a boxing blue on a mission to save his wayward cousin from the fleshpots of Hollywood. Both are under anaesthetic at the dentists when something strange happens - and their identities are swapped in the ether. Suddenly Joey can use his six-foot frame to get his own back on his Hollywood persecutors. But Reggie has to endure everything Joey had to put up with in the horrible life of a child star - including kidnap. Laughing Gas is Wodehouse's brilliantly funny take on the 'If I were you' theme - a wry look at the dangers of getting what you wish for in the movie business and beyond.