Q's legacy / Helene Hanff.
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TextPublication details: New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 1986, c1985.Description: 177 p. ; 20 cmISBN: - 0140089365 (pbk.) :
- 818/.5409 B 19
- PS3515.A4853 Z473 1986b
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | Biography | Hanff, H. H238q | Available | 33111002922843 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This memoir tells the remarkable story of how Helene Hanff came to write 84, Charing Cross Road , and how its success changed her. Hanff recalls her serendipitous discovery of a volume of lectures by a Cambridge don, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. She devoured Q's book, and, wanting to read all the books he recommended, began to order them from a small store in London at 84, Charing Cross Road.
Thus began a correspondence that became an enormously popular book, play, television production, and movie, and that finally led to the trip to England -- and a visit to Q's study -- that she recounts in this exuberant memoir. Hanff pays her debt to her mentor and shares her joyous adventures with her many fans.
"Reading Helene Hanff's book is like making a new friend -- a charming, wise, and funny one." -- Betty Rollin
"A potpourri . . . easy and assured . . . A delightful companion for the odd hour." -- San Francisco Chronicle
"Hanff's charm is such that when she exults . . . we exult right along with her." -- Kirkus Reviews