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This funny, poignant, classic love story unfolds through a series of letters between Helene Hanff, a freelance writer living in New York City, and a used-book dealer in London at 84, Charing Cross Road. Through the years, though never meeting and separated both geographically
and culturally, they share a charming, sentimental friendship based on their common love for books. Discover the relationship that has touched the hearts of thousands of readers around the world, and was the basis for a film starring Anthony Hopkins and Anne Bancroft.
"Those who have read The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a novel comprised of only letters between the characters, will see how much that best-seller owes 84, Charing Cross Road."—Medium.com
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Release date
July 1, 2017 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781501968525
- File size: 55679 KB
- Duration: 01:55:59
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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Helene Hanff's entertaining record of twenty years of letters from her New York brownstone to a book shop in post-war London is brought to life in this wonderful production. The artful use of several narrators adds dimension to these informal letters written between 1949 and 1969 after Hanff discovers that the staff of Marks & Co. Booksellers will send her the reading she wants. John Franklyn-Robbins portrays Frank Doell, a proper Englishman who sends Hanff's first order. Barbara Rosenblat's New York accent perfectly captures Hanff's general crankiness and her milieu of ratty sweaters, baggy trousers and coffee cups in her messy apartment/writer's studio on East 95th St. Through the letters the listener develops a warm affection for Hanff and the staff of Marks & Co. This is a superb production, which the listener doesn't want to end. B.V. Winner of AUDIOFILE Earphones Award (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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