Q's Legacy
A Delightful Account of a Lifelong Love Affair with Books
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 ment…
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- ISBN: 978-0-14-008936-3
- EAN: 9780140089363
- Produktnummer: 19344456
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1986
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Masse: H19.9 cm x B13.1 cm x D1.5 cm 158 g
- Gewicht: 158
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Helene Hanff (1915–1997) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In the 1940s and ’50s she wrote plays and television scripts in New York City, but found little success until her best-known book, 84, Charing Cross Road, was published in 1970. The book was a smash hit and has been adapted for the radio, stage, film, and television.
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