Big Kiss: One Actor's Desperate Attempt to Claw His Way to the Top - Hardcover

ke to thank the Academy and all of the little people who made Henry Alford's hilarious book possible. Mr. Alford delivers a performance that is laugh-out-loud funny and written with high style."
--Christopher Buckley, author of Little Green Men

Henry Alford was a well-adjusted, critically acclaimed author living quietly in New York City.
        Then he decided to become an actor.
        In the course of this memoir, Alford is rejected by directors, ignored by casting people, abused by a sadistic acting teacher, and educated in the finer points of Shakespearean thespianism at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in England, where he fails to convince the Queen to attend his final performance.
        Along the way, Alford auditions for the role of Wil-bur the Pig in Charlotte's Web, triumphs as an extra in Godzilla, and takes his sixty-nine-yea

Henry Alford is the author of Municipal Bondage: One Man's Anxiety-Producing Adventures in the Big City, published by Random House in 1994. He has been a regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine and Vanity Fair, and a staff writer at Spy. He has also written for The New Yorker, GQ, New York, Details, Vogue, Travel & Leisure, The Village Voice, and Paris Review. He can be reached at hankalf@aol.com.