This is a mustt for anyone who has read "84 Charring Cross" (and surely everyone has read that gem).

RELEASE NOTES:

on table at Shoreline Vegetarian Diner

Memoir. 1973 Lippincott hardcover with dustjacket (first edition). Smells quite strongly of cigarette smoke. ISBN 0397009763. My friend gave this to me at RENT last night because she knows I'm a Bookcrosser. I gave her a book of mine and asked her to leave it where she found this one--I'll make release notes once she says she's done it.

A diary of the author's first trip to her favorite country. After the publication of the 84, Charing Cross Road--which became a cult success on both sides of the Atlantic--Hanff meets her English friends and fans.

From the flap
Sometimes sequels to successful books are written out of respect for critics. Sometimes they are written out of gratitude to the public. Mostly they are written for money. However, this book was written out of sympathy for the mailman bowed under a burden of letters from readers asking what happened next.
In 1970, Helene Hanff wrote 84, Charing Cross Road, a record of a postal love affair with England through a twenty-year correspondence with a London bookseller. The book found thousands of devoted readers. Their fervent wish--and hers above all--was that she go to England.
Now at last in The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street that dream comes true. And from her first adventure with the capricious shower in her hotel room (English bird baths are far superior in design to their showers, she concludes) to her final walk through Russell Square, where she "sat" for her portrait, Miss Hanff savored every moment she spent in England. She found herself at the center of a wonderful whirl of roses and new friends and messages-at-the-desk, and each time she wrote a postcard, she confides, she was tempted to use Euphoria as a return address.
"All my life I wanted to see London," Miss Hanff writes. "I used to go to English movies just to look at the streets with houses like those. Staring at the screen in a dark theatre, I wanted to walk down those streets so badly it gnawed at me like hunger. . . ." In this sprightly, essential, sublime account of her visit she walks down those streets, and it is safe to say that neither Helene Hanff nor indeed England will ever again be quite the same.

RELEASE NOTES:

Left on the magazine/book table in the 9th floor jury room at the
New Haven Superior Court
235 Church St. (on the corner of Wall St.)
New Haven, CT 06510
http://www.jud.state.ct.us/faq/accom/newhaven.htm

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I found this book while on jury duty. It was a three week murder case. I was reading about a book a day initially, because of our waiting time. This was a perfect book for the situation, light, easy to dip into. I had read 84 Charing Cross Rd some years ago which made this book much more enjoyable. I plan to bring this book to the school I run. I have a little book exchange going there for the parents. This is a perfect fit.