At Random: The Reminiscences Of Bennett Cerf (Trade PBK); Author: Cerf, Bennett; Introduction: Cerf, Christopher; Paperback

Author: Cerf, Bennett; Introduction: Cerf, Christopher
Trade PBK Edition; Paperback
Random House Trade
ISBN: 037575976X

I've got the name for our publishing operation. We just said we were going to publish a few books on the side at random. Let's call it Random House. So recounts Bennett Cerf in his wonderfully amusing account of the making of a great publishing house.Cerf -- an incomparable raconteur, possessed of an irrepressible wit and an abiding love of books and authors -- brilliantly evokes the heady days of Random House's infancy, tracing its beginnings as an offshoot of the Modern Library to its growth as a publisher of Pulitzer Prize -- winning and bestselling authors. Whether he's describing the fortuitous events that brought a particular author to Random House or the personalities that have shaped the house over the years, Cerf tells his story in a wholly engaging and accessible m