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. No doubt their letters would have continued, but in 1969, a letter informed Helene that Frank Doel had died. These are my pages on the late author Helene Hanff who became famous from her book '84, Charing Cross Road', and whom I met in New York in November 1994. Discover more authors youll love listening to on Audible. For 20 years, this outspoken New York writer and Frank Doel, a rather more restrained London bookseller carry on an increasingly touching correspondence. Browse Helene Hanffs best-selling audiobooks and newest titles. 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. 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.’
The phrase ‘antiquarian book-sellers’ scares me somewhat, as I equate ‘antique’ with expensive. Helene Hanff was an American writer, best known as the author of the book 84, Charing Cross Road, which became the basis for a stage play, television play, and a film. sort by Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author.
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