Folio Society 84 Charing Cross Road

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Description: Folio Society 2004 Chosen by Sue MacGregor A favourite with booklovers everywhere, 84, Charing Cross Road is a collection of letters telling a unique love story between a slightly eccentric American (Helene Hanff) and an English antiquarian bookshop (Marks & Co.). A favourite with booklovers everywhere, 84, Charing Cross Road is a collection of letters telling a unique love story between a slightly eccentric American (Helene Hanff) and an English antiquarian bookshop (Marks & Co.). Helene introduces herself as 'a poor writer with an antiquarian taste in books' and, despite facing a little English reserve, she soon establishes a rapport with several employees at the booksellers. This was the 1950s and rationing was still in full force in England. Horrified by post-Second-World War privations and despite her own money worries, Helene Hanff sent over food parcels of eggs, ham and even nylons to the grateful staff. As the friendship between Hanff and chief correspondent Frank Doel developed over two decades, invitations to visit become more insistent, but each year a financial or work crisis delayed her trip once more. 'Immensely appealing... witty,caustic'

Status: For Sale	Reference#: EE_25
Condition: Mint	Year: 2004

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