cover image Emma Who Saved My Life

Emma Who Saved My Life

Wilton Barnhardt. St. Martin's Press, $4.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-312-92183-5

An aspiring actor comes to New York to seek his fortune. `` Emma is a winner--a book of enormous charm, full of sharp, often acid, character sketches and memorable scenes, alternately touching and uproariously funny, that linger in the memory,'' commended PW . (July)