{"product_id":"hello-goodbye-hello-book-craig-brown-9781451683608","title":"Hello Goodbye Hello","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom one of the funniest writers in Britain--wise, clever, hilarious, and a national treasure (Helen Fielding, author of \u003ci\u003eBridget Jones's Diary\u003c\/i\u003e) comes this delightful book of 101 ingeniously linked encounters between the famous and the infamous  \u003ci\u003eThe Observer \u003c\/i\u003e(London) Best Books of the Year].\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHello Goodbye Hello \u003c\/i\u003eis a daisy chain of 101 fascinating true encounters, a book that has been hailed by reviewers in London as howlingly funny (\u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e), original and a complete delight (\u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e), and rich and hugely enjoyable (\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e). Or, as the \u003ci\u003eLondon Evening Standard \u003c\/i\u003eput it, the truth and nothing but the plain, bonkers, howling truth . . . It is partly a huge karmic parlour game, partly a dance to the music of chaos--and only the genius of Craig Brown could have produced it. Who could imagine such unlikely--but true-- encounters as these: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMartha Graham meets Madonna \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIgor Stravinsky meets Walt Disney \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrank Lloyd Wright meets Marilyn Monroe \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMarilyn Monroe meets Nikita Khrushchev \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePresident Richard Nixon meets Elvis Presley \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHarpo Marx meets George Bernard Shaw \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCecil Beaton meets Mick Jagger \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSalvador Dali meets Sigmund Freud \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGroucho Marx meets T.S. Eliot \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBrilliant in conception, \u003ci\u003eHello Goodbye Hello \u003c\/i\u003eshows how the celebrated and gifted--like the rest of us-- got along famously or disastrously or indifferently with one another, but, thanks to Craig Brown, always to our amusement and entertainment. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom an opening story in which Adolf Hitler survives being knocked down by a careless English driver in 1931 to the Duchess of Windsor's meeting with the F hrer over tea, and 99 others in between, \u003ci\u003eHello Goodbye Hello \u003c\/i\u003eis the perfect example that truth is stranger than fiction (and infinitely more enjoyable).","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49545931456785,"sku":"GOR005584331","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49563735195921,"sku":"GOR006818952","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50178568749329,"sku":"CIN145168360XVG","price":4.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51417078792465,"sku":"CIN145168360XG","price":4.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52085353513233,"sku":"GOR014483963","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/145168360X.jpg?v=1751444079","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/hello-goodbye-hello-book-craig-brown-9781451683608","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}