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84, Charing Cross Road
84, Charing Cross Road
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Beautiful epistolary semi-fiction, about the love of used books and their previous owners

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Michele
Jul 15, 2013 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: bio_autiobio, reread-regularly, writing-and-language
Lovely epistolary non-fiction made up of correspondence between a young woman writer in 1940s New York City and a London bookseller whom she commissions to find all sorts of obscure and not-so-obscure titles. The letters are chatty, entertaining, and of course VERY book-centric; the contrast between the free-and-easy Helene and the more proper British is delightful. Since it's late 1940s, there are also snippets of British post-war rationing and other things. A delight all around. (Sadly, I hear ...more
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