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THE RUSSIAN TEA ROOM: A Love Story
by Stewart-Gordon, Faith
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0684859815
- ISBN 13
- 9780684859811
- Seller
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About This Item
Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Scribner, 1999. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Coinciding with the opening of the glamorous, new Russian Tea Room, former owner Faith Stewart-Gordon's charming and revealing memoir shows why this legendary restaurant lives up to its reputation -- and then some.Rudolph Nureyev told Time magazine that the Russian Tea Room was what he liked most about America. Carol Channing regularly dined there for lunch -- on mysterious items she'd bring herself in a lunchbox. Leonard Bernstein scribbled the first bars of "Fancy Free" there on a napkin. And Dustin Hoffman made his hilarious and unforgettable debut public appearance as a woman in the famous movie Tootsie at the Russian Tea Room. Now, just in time for the Russian Tea Room's long-awaited reopening, comes this delightful, anecdote-rich story of the famed New York eatery. And more -- not just about a famous place, it is a true memoir, at times very funny, always touching, sometimes sad, and often revealing, about a brave and quirky young South Carolina woman, Faith Stewart-Gordon. Her journey from the early 1950s and acting on Broadway to her marriage to the Russian Tea Room owner, Sidney Kaye, and her subsequent struggles to operate the restaurant after his death, balancing a career with young motherhood, is a journey with which many will identify, it is not only a story of survival but of the quest for self-knowledge set against the most glamorous background, but never losing sight of what went on behind the scenes, both in the restaurant and in her own life. Fine, first edition, first printing,, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. NFBS1
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- Bookseller
- Joe Staats, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8616
- Title
- THE RUSSIAN TEA ROOM: A Love Story
- Author
- Stewart-Gordon, Faith
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0684859815
- ISBN 13
- 9780684859811
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Place of Publication
- Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1999
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Keywords
- RESTAURANTEURS BUSINESS ECONOMICS HOSPITALITY TRAVEL General
- Product_type
- 2
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