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Manderley Press is delighted to announce the publication of a brand-new edition of Helene Hanff's Underfoot in Show Business - another literary jewel from the author of 84, Charing Cross Road. To showcase this wonderful book, we commissioned the New York Times bestselling author Jean Hanff Korelitz (The Plot) to pen a new introduction - she is a cousin of Helene Hanff's, and was inspired to become a writer after meeting her as a teenager. The front cover was specially designed by New Yorker illustrator Bruce Eric Kaplan, also a fan of the author and a resident of New York City too. The countless admirers of Helene Hanff's 84, Charing Cross Road will welcome this delightful account of her early days as a struggling writer on the edge of show business. It has been out of print for several decades so we are delighted to republish a brand new version to sit alongside the new Manderley Press edition of Letter from New York, also by Helene Hanff.
A favourite of Helene Hanff's cousin Jean Hanff Korelitz (the best-selling writer who also penned the introduction to the new Manderley Press edition of Letter from New York) and Bruce Eric Kaplan (the acclaimed New Yorker cartoonist who also illustrated the front cover of Letter from New York), this memoir is charming, eccentric and written in the author's trademark whimsical style.
When she became an apprentice playwright with New York's prestigious Theatre Guild, Helene was high on the champagne of her hopes. What did she care about living chiefly on coffee in meagre bed-sitters when she could always borrow her best friend's best blouse for lunch with a producer, and was meeting awe-inspiring people. She was young, stage-struck and determined have fun.
"Another charmer of a book ... fresh, fascinating and very funny indeed"
- The Stage
"Beautifully done ... I really cannot recommend this book too vigorously"
- The Sunday Telegraph
"A wonderful, zany, funny memoir ... Hanff is as enchanting as ever"
- Publisher's Weekly
Contents
Introduction
Jean Hanff Korelitz
Chapter One
Flanagan's Law
Footnote to Chapter 1: It Doesn't Pay to Educate Playwrights
Chapter Two
"No Casting Today But Keep in Touch!"
Chapter Three
If They Take You to Lunch They Don't Want Your Play
Chapter Four
If She Takes You to Lunch She Can't Sell It
Chapter Five
The Underfoot Free Enterprise System
Chapter Six
"Sumer Is Icumen In..."
Chapter Seven
"No Legs No Jokes No Chance"
Chapter Eight
Large Furnished Rear with Kitchen Privileges
Chapter Nine
Outside Hollywood
Chapter Ten
Owl and Piglet on Broadway
Chapter Eleven
"Lhude Sing Cuccu"
Chapter Twelve
A Round Trip through the Annex, or Sarah Wants to Do Something Greek and Other Stories
