Hello Goodbye Hello: A Circle of 101 Remarkable Meetings

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From one of Englands 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. IMAGINE THESE UNLIKELY BUT TRUE ENCOUNTERS: lt Martha Graham and Madonna lt Igor Stravinsky and Walt Disney lt Frank Lloyd Wright and Marilyn Monroe lt Marilyn Monroe and Nikita Khrushchev lt President Richard M. Nixon and Elvis Presley lt Harpo Marx and George Bernard Shaw lt Salvador Dali and Sigmund Freud lt Groucho Marx and T. S. Eliot lt BRILLIANT IN CONCEPTION AND DIZZYING IN EXECUTION, Hello Goodbye Hello is a daisy chain of 101 fascinating true encounters, chance meetings, and disastrous collisions between the celebrated and the gifted, the famous and the infamous. Witty and wicked, Hello Goodbye Hello is the perfect example that truth is stranger than fiction (and infinitely more enjoyable).

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