Underfoot in Show Business - Helene Hanff

"Beautifully done ... I really cannot recommend thisbook too vigorously" - The Sunday TelegraphFrom the author of 84, Charing Cross Road comesanother literary jewel of a memoir from Helene Hanff. This is a delightfulaccount of her early days as a struggling writer on the edge of show business. When Helene became an apprentice playwright with New York'sprestigious Theatre Guild, she was high on the champagne of her hopes. What didshe care about living chiefly on coffee in meagre bed-sitters when she couldalways borrow her best friend's best blouse for lunch with a producer, and wasmeeting awe-inspiring people? She was young, stage-struck and determined havefun. Brought back into print after several decades in gorgeoushardback gift edition, Underfoot in Show Business is introduced by Helene'scousin Jean Hanff Korelitz, a New York Times best-selling novelist inher own right.
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