In that period, she started ordering books at a library in London called Marks and Co., not knowing that the exchange of letters with their employees would get her to write her best known novel: 84, Charing Cross Road.
Around the 40s, she had already written more than 20 plays, but none of them had been taken to stage. Once installed there, she started herself as playwright. The relationship began as Hanff delved into the work of a professor at Cambridge University. Her childhood was marked by the economic depression.Įven though Hanff only could pay herself one year at university, she was always a passionate reader.Īt the end of the 30s, Hanff decided to move to New York. HELENE HANFF 1970 INTRODUCTION 84, Charing Cross Road, published in 1970, is constructed from a collection of correspondence between the author and a London bookseller, Frank Doel. The power of evocation of this text is totally fascinating: as the book progresses, the weight of words that hasn’t been said, things that any of them say, is the element that plays, with ability, in the reader, taking him/her further than Helene’s apartment and that lugubrious but illuminated flat at 84, Charing Cross Road, where Frank Doel consumes his days.Ĩ4, Charing Cross Road is the story of two lonely souls united for a passion: the passion for reading, the books, for those windows that open to other lives that will never stop fascinating. Helene and Frank will talk about books, forgotten authors, sadness, happiness, faith, dreams…, the little things that belong to their lives. Helene Hanff discovers in the Saturday Review an small ad of an small library in London that is specialized in second hand books and decides to write the library asking for editions that are hard to find for a reasonable price in New York.įrank Doel answers her and a friendship starts with correspondence that will last 20 years. Extracte del punt de lectura del Bookclub (Club de Lectura en Anglès) 84, Charing Cross Road by Helen Hanff 4.8 (16) Paperback 12.95 Paperback 12.95 Audiobook 0.
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