{"product_id":"9781451684520","title":"Hello Goodbye Hello: A Circle of 101 Remarkable Meetings","description":"\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: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMartha Graham meets Madonna \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIgor Stravinsky meets Walt Disney \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrank Lloyd Wright meets Marilyn Monroe \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarilyn Monroe meets Nikita Khrushchev \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresident Richard Nixon meets Elvis Presley \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHarpo Marx meets George Bernard Shaw \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCecil Beaton meets Mick Jagger \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSalvador Dali meets Sigmund Freud \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGroucho Marx meets T.S. Eliot \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 Führer 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":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175678722288,"sku":"9781451684520","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781451684520_p0.jpg?v=1763838806","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781451684520","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}