“You don’t have to be a film buff to love acclaimed British author Jonathan Coe’s at once melancholic and laugh-out-loud funny novel Mr. Wilder and Me. But don’t be surprised if reading it inspires you to binge-watch Hollywood movie classics “Some Like It Hot,” “Sunset Boulevard,” “The Apartment” and others written and directed by cinema great Billy Wilder (1906-2002), the Austrian-American producer, director and screenwriter to whom Coe gives star credit in his title...not a romantic love story, but something more tender and rare: a charming, ironic fairy tale about an accidental, intergenerational friendship... [a] gem of a novel.”
Read the full review in the Washington Post.
