84 Charing Cross Road

Hanff, Helene

ISBN 10 : 140550255X ISBN 13 : 9781405502559

Editeur : Hachette Audio, 2007

Synopsis

INCLUDES AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH THE READERS 'Your ad in the Saturday Review of Literature says that you specialize in out-of-print books. The phrase 'antiquarian book-sellers' scares me somewhat, as I equate 'antique' with expensive. I am a poor writer with an antiquarian taste in books and all the things I want are impossible to get over here except in very expensive rare editions, or in Barnes & Noble's grimy, marked-up schoolboy copies.' So begins the delightfully reticent love affair between Miss Helene Hanff of New York and Messrs Marks and Co, sellers of rare and secondhand books, at 84 Charing Cross Road, London. For 20 years, this outspoken New York writer and Frank Doel, a rather more restrained London bookseller carry on an increasingly touching correspondence. No doubt their letters would have continued, but in 1969, a letter informed Helene that Frank Doel had died. In the collection's penultimate entry, Helene Hanff urges a tourist friend, "If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me. I owe it so much.'

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Helene Hanff wrote letters all her life as well as being the author of many books for children and articles for the NEW YORKER and HARPER'S.
She died in 1997.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hachette Audio
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 140550255X
• ISBN 13: 9781405502559
• Reliure: CD
• Nombre de pages: 1
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible