Hello Goodbye Hello

A Circle of 101 Remarkable Meetings

By: Craig Brown

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Paperback | 20 August 2013

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384 Pages

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From one of England's wittiest writers, a "captivating, glittering, engaging, entertaining confection" (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) of 101 unlikely encounters between pairs of historical figures from Salvador Dali and Sigmund Freud to Marilyn Monroe and Frank Lloyd Wright.

Hello Goodbye Hello is the supremely inventive but utterly factual story of some of the most unlikely encounters between two notable people over the last 150 years. Told in daisy-chain style, the second person in each encounter is the first person in the next.

Madonna was terrified by her brief encounter with Martha Graham, who herself had been fascinated by her meeting with Helen Keller. Michael Jackson was turned off by his experience working with Madonna. The King of Pop, however, intrigued Nancy Reagan endlessly-although the First Lady couldn't figure out why he spoke like a girl. Groucho Marx and T.S. Eliot? It happened. In fact, they corresponded regularly. Marilyn Monroe and Nikita Khrushchev? They met in Hollywood at the urging of her studio, which insisted she wear her tightest, sexiest dress for the occasion.

"Irresistible," (People) "deliciously clever and amusing," (Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post) Hello Goodbye Hello proves that truth is stranger than fiction-and far more enjoyable. "Dip into this book anywhere and you will be rewarded with something delightful," recommends Moira Hodgson in The Wall Street Journal.

Industry Reviews

"Captivating...Glittering...Engaging...Entertaining...[Brown] has whipped up a gratifying summertime confection -- funny, diverting, occasionally sad."
--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

"Deliciously clever and amusing...Hello Goodbye Hello is splendid company, not to mention perfect for the beach, the lake or the pool."
--Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post

"Hello Goodbye Hello is a hilarious book, clever and thoroughly researched...dip into this book anywhere and you will be rewarded with something delightful."
--Moira Hodgson, Wall Street Journal

"Brown's collection of odd encounters could be titled Famous People Behaving Badly. They're irresistible."
--People
"Craig Brown is the wittiest writer in Britain today."
--Stephen Fry

"The book that made me laugh most was Craig Brown's quirky game of biographical consequences."
--Julian Barnes, Times Literary Supplement "Books of the Year"

"Craig Brown is something of a national treasure in Britain. . . . Hello Goodbye Hello is a bravura feat of narrative engineering. . . . A joyful, fun read espsecially for its widgety, ingenious construction."
--David Kamp, Vanity Fair

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