Book review: 84, Charing Cross Road

[riontel]

Finished reading Helene Hanff's "84, Charing Cross Road." It's a wonderfully charming epistolary novel (novelette?) composed of correspondence between a poor NY writer and the staff of an antique book store, spanning about twenty years. It's funny and uplifting and, well, like I said, charming, with little glimpses of lives on both sides of the pond starting in 1949, when Britain was still recovering from WWII and dealing with shortages and rationing.

Since I didn't want to acquire a paper book and there is no electronic book available, I borrowed an e-copy (actual scanned book) from the Open Library. It's an excellent and very convenient source for books, btw.