84 Charing Cross Road

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Paperback, 220 pages

English language

Published April 17, 1992 by Grossman Publishers.

ISBN:
978-0-7515-0384-5
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4 stars (12 reviews)

A heartwarming love story about people who love books for readers who love books

This funny, poignant classic love story showcases the power of the written word to bring people together. The 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 winsome, sentimental friendship based on their common love for books. Their relationship, captured so acutely in these letters, is one that has touched the hearts of thousands of readers around the world and was the basis for the film starring Anthony Hopkins and Anne Bancroft.

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Intercambio epistolar entre la autora, una escritora neoyorquina no muy sobrada de dineros, y un establecimiento londinense de libros de segunda mano. De paso, envía algún regalito en forma de huevos y carne para aliviar las penurias de posguerra.

No me extraña que tuviera tanto éxito, transmite buen rollo desde la primera página: cómo la autora se va ganando la confianza de los ingleses, que tratan de mantener la compostura de la corespondencia comercial, el amor por los libros y la humanidad en torno a ellos.

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