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 84 Charing Cross Road - Helene Hanff
Description: ISBN 1860498507 / Author: Helene Hanff / Genre: Biography / 84 Charing Cross Road is a series of letters charting the twenty-year ... more  84 Charing Cross Road - Helene Hanff ... correspondence between a would-be playwright in NY and Frank Doel, a London antiquarian bookseller. From such a modest premise, Helene Hanff has created something with an almost unique charm which continues to endure as a successful book, play and film.Newest Review: ... with praise and thanks but also with rebukes and sarcasm. Frank melts over the years as he gradually opens up to this ... more ... fascinating lady and his letters come to include details of his life and news of his wife, Nora and their daughters. Eventually, after ten years’ communication, he abandons his usual “yours faithfully” and “yours sincerely” signatures in favour of “with love”.
Helene’s writings are almost “stream of consciousness” in their construction and full of humour. She wins a grant to produce history dramatisations and announces her intention to start “ with a script about new York under seven years of British occupation” and...more |
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Format: Hardback, ISBN: 9781559211406
Pages: 104, Edition: New Ed, Hardcover, Moyer Bell Ltd ,U.S. - Bo ... |
£ 10.49 |
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84 Charing Cross Road - Helene Hanff: A Very American and Very British Love Story (1641 words)
by skidd - written on 31.07.07 (Very useful, 138 readings)
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Sometimes life can be perverse! Outside the warm sun was shining and the sea sparkling and inviting on the first seasonal summer Saturday we had been blessed with in quite a while. Inside I was suffering a headache, sneezing, shivering and generally lacking any energy to get out and enjoy it! I clicked on the television and there on the Freeview guide the words “84 Charing Cross Road” sprang out to greet me bringing memories flooding back. I wrapped myself in a duvet, curled up on the settee and got lost in that gentle and wonderful film. When it finished I wanted more and went in search of the book that I first read twenty five or so years ago and have re-read on ...
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