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| Title: | 84, Charing Cross Road
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| Author: | Helene Hanff; Introduction by Anne Bancroft |
| ISBN: | 1559211407 : 9781559211406 |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 145x230mm |
| Pages: | 97 |
| Weight: | .32 Kg. |
| Published: | Moyer Bell Ltd - July 1995 |
| List Price: | 11.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Essays; journals; letters & other prose works |
It all began with a letter enquiring about second-hand books, written by Helene Hanff in New York, and posted to a bookshop at 84 Charing Cross Road, London. As Helene's sarcastic and witty letters are responded to by the stodgy and proper Frank Doel of 84 Charing Cross Road, a relationship blossoms into a warm, charming, feisty love affair. We follow, in her subsequent letters and in the shop's responses, the trial of one woman;s idiosyncratic path through English literature. Along the way, as Anne Bancroft notes in her introduction, our enjoyment in sharing. Hanff's literary eduction is deepened by the human story her letters tell as she grows ever fonder of her bookselling friends across the ocean.
