84, Charing Cross Road

by Helene Hanff, Marks & Co (Other), Frank Doel (Other)

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

What do you get when a freelance writer in NYC writes a letter to a used bookseller in London searching for a book? The beginning of a 20-year relationship. 84, Charing Cross Road is a delightful, poignant, funny classic love story that will charm your heart now as it did when it was first published in 1970.

This charming classic love story, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspondence between Helene Hanff, at the time, a freelance writer living in New York City, and a used-book dealer in London at 84, Charing Cross Road. Through the years, though never meeting and separated both geographically and culturally, they share a winsome, sentimental friendship based on their common love for books. Their relationship, captured so acutely in these letters, is one that has touched the hearts of thousands of readers around the world.

"84, Charing Cross Road will beguile and put you in tune with mankind... It will provide an emollient for the spirit and sheath for the exposed nerve." — The New York Times

"A unique, throat-lumping, side-splitting treasure." — San Francisco Examiner

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780140143508
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	10/01/1990
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	112
Sales rank:	664
Product dimensions:	5.07(w) x 7.75(h) x 0.31(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Helene Hanff (1915–1997) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In the 1940s and ’50s she wrote plays and television scripts in New York City, but found little success until her best-known book, 84, Charing Cross Road, was published in 1970. The book was a smash hit and has been adapted for the radio, stage, film, and television.

Editorial Reviews

What started as a request for an out-of-print book evolved into a 20-year friendship. In her saucy letters, Hanff playfully harangues the staff : "SLOTH: I could ROT over here before you'd send me anything to read." Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

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