84, Charing Cross Road
By: Helene Hanff
Synopsis
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.
— from Penguin Books
— from Penguin Books
Contributor's Note
84, Charing Cross Road speaks to the power of connection through the written word. In no part of this book will you find a dramatic story that delivers the usual page-turner adrenaline.
What you get instead is two decades of letter-writing between two individuals in New York and London, where each short letter adds another piece to their lives, the world they lived in, and the friendship that slowly forms.
(At some point, you’ll probably find yourself thinking that Helene would never visit.)
— Jing Jing, PD
What you get instead is two decades of letter-writing between two individuals in New York and London, where each short letter adds another piece to their lives, the world they lived in, and the friendship that slowly forms.
(At some point, you’ll probably find yourself thinking that Helene would never visit.)
— Jing Jing, PD