From the front flap: "Each year, hundreds of stagestruck kids arrive in New York determined to crash the theatre... One in a thousand turns out to be Noel Coward. This book is about life among the other 999. By one of them." - Helene Hanff In her spirited, witty and vastly entertaining memoir, Helene Hanff recalls her ingenuous attempts to crash Broadway in the early forties … [Read more...] about Underfoot in Show Business by Helene Hanff: A
Helene Hanff
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff: B+
From the back cover: This charming classic, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspondence between Helene Hanff, a freelance writer living in New York City, and a used-book dealer in London. Through the years, though never meeting and separated both geographically and culturally, they share a winsome, sentimental friendship based on their common love … [Read more...] about 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff: B+