by Helene Hanff · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9789174486407
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«Brev till en bokhandel» is the Swedish edition of the epistolary work «84, Charing Cross Road» by Helene Hanff, in paperback (223 pages, in Swedish).
The work brings together twenty years of real letters exchanged between Helene Hanff, a New York writer, and the London bookshop Marks & Co., begun as orders for out-of-print books and turned into an epistolary friendship with gifts, jokes and personal news. A testament to the love of books and the cultural contrast between New York and London.
The original work «84, Charing Cross Road» was published in 1970; this Swedish edition, translated by Berit Skogsberg, came out in 1991 from Litteraturfrämjandet.
For readers interested in books about books, memoirs and real correspondence, with an affinity for British literature and mid-20th-century humour.
Helene Hanff was an American writer born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is best known as the author of the book 84, Charing Cross Road, which became the basis for a stage play, television play, and film of the same name.
