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"Beautifully done ... I really cannot recommend this
book too vigorously" - The Sunday Telegraph
From the author of 84, Charing Cross Road comes
another literary jewel of a memoir from Helene Hanff. This is a delightful
account of her early days as a struggling writer on the edge of show business.
When Helene became an apprentice playwright with New York's
prestigious Theatre Guild, she 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.
Brought back into print after several decades in gorgeous
hardback gift edition, Underfoot in Show Business is introduced by Helene's
cousin Jean Hanff Korelitz, a New York Times best-selling novelist in
her own right.
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
