A re-issue of LB’s famous and very funny memoir about working in a New York Hotel. He came to the US in 1914, aged sixteen, and worked at the ‘Hotel Splendide’ as he called it for the next three years. Chapter one is called ‘The Animal Waiter’; chapter thirteen ‘My Valet Lustgarten’… Illustrated with his own drawings.
Hotel Splendide
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£9.99
Edition:Paperback978178227791029/09/2022
Categories: 10. Summer Books 2022: Food, Biography, Letters & Diaries, Food & Wine, Summer Books 2022
Tag: North America
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