84, Charing Cross Road [stage adaptation]
by Helene Hanff, James Roose-Evans (Adapter)
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This wonderful show is a dramatization of business letters between a young struggling writer in New York and an antiquarian book store in London. In a sense, these are also love letters. They are about the love of good literature. The play takes place over a twenty year period, beginning in 1949 when Helene Hanff (played on Broadway by Ellen Burstyn) first writes Marks & Co. and ends in 1969 with the death of Frank Doel, the delightfully dusty supplier of so many old volumes to Helen who has show more shown her gratitude through the years by sending "care packages" to the staff of Marks & Co. show lessTags
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A must for people who, loving books, start looking for specific books. It's one of the most "human" books about buying and selling books I've ever read. As soon as you finish reading it, you want to find a good second-hand bookshop and find that book that's still living in the back of your mind instead of on your shelves.
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- 84, Charing Cross Road [stage adaptation]
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- 84 Charing Cross Road (1987 | IMDb)
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