by Craig Brown
Simon & Schuster
Trade paperback
From the publisher website:
IMAGINE THESE UNLIKELY—BUT TRUE—ENCOUNTERS:
Martha Graham and Madonna
Igor Stravinsky and Walt Disney
Frank Lloyd Wright and Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe and Nikita Khrushchev
President Richard M. Nixon and Elvis Presley
Harpo Marx and George Bernard Shaw
Salvador Dali and Sigmund Freud
Groucho Marx and T. S. Eliot
BRILLIANT IN CONCEPTION AND DIZZYING IN EXECUTION, Hello Goodbye Hello is a daisy chain of 101 fascinating true encounters, chance meetings, and disastrous collisions between the celebrated and the gifted, the famous and the infamous. Witty and wicked, Hello Goodbye Hello is the perfect example that truth is stranger than fiction (and infinitely more enjoyable).Links
Review (New York Times)
6 Oddball Meetings Between Celebrities (Christian Science Monitor)
Review (New York Journal of Books)
I read this a while ago and cannot recommend it highly enough.
ReplyDeleteThanks, jd. I appreciate the recommendation. :)
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