Helene Hanff

84, Charing Cross Road, paru en 1970, est un recueil épistolaire de la correspondance entretenue à partir de 1949 entre Helene Hanff, auteur américaine et principalement Franck Doel, un employé de la librairie Marks & Co., située au nᵒ 84 de la rue Charing Cross Road à Londres, échange qui s'interrompra en 1968 …

It all began with a letter inquiring about second-hand books, written by Helene Hanff in New York, and posted to a bookshop at 84, Charing Cross Road in London. As Helene's sarcastic and witty letters are responded to by the stodgy and proper Frank Doel of 84, Charing Cross Road, a relationship blossoms into a warm …

A zesty memoir of the celebrated writer's travels to England where she meets the cherished friends from 84, Charing Cross Road.

For six years, Helene Hanff held captive audiences all over the world with her monthly broadcasts on the BBC's Woman's Hour. In five-minute vignettes, she managed to convey the essential New York City: life in a high rise apartment building (the last small town in America); annals of Chester-the-Sheepdog, Duke, the …