Letter from New York: BBC Woman's Hour Broadcasts
by Helene Hanff
Our Price: $84.99
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $2.96 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Helene HanffEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1995-04-01
ISBN: 1559210648
Number of pages: 144
Publisher: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries
Summary of Letter from New York: BBC Woman's Hour Broadcasts
For six years, Helene Hanff held captive audiences all over the world with her monthly broadcasts on the BBC's "Woman's Hour." In five-minute vignettes, she managed to convey the essential New York City: life in a high rise apartment building ("the last small town in America"); annals of Chester-the-Sheepdog, Duke, the German shepherd, and their friends; the tree-lighting, magic and music of Christmas in New York. We meet Arlene, Hanff's high-flying friend who's social life (and wardrobe) put Hanff's one-and-one-half room apartment and simple writer's life in perspective. We walk through Nina's garden, 16 stories up and witness famous New York rites of passage from the hysteria of St. Patrick's Day to Shakespeare's Garden and the neighbors who saved it, to block parties, with their "sizzling Italian sausages and shish kebab and flossy plates of pate and brie," all told in Hanff's inimitable style. We join Hanff as she flies to London to realize a lifetime dream at the Ambassador Theatre: opening night for the play, "84, Charing Cross Road." And we witness the elegant Arlene as she meets and falls in love with a New York City cop.Memoirs Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Memoirs Books
Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Centuryby Hunter S. Thompson
Penguin Books, Limited (UK); Published: 2008-06; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.11
Price in other shops:
Never Have Your Dog Stuffedby Alan Alda
Arrow Books; Published: 2007-02; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.59
Price in other shops:
The Hunger: A Story of Food, Desire, and Ambitionby John DeLucie, Graydon Carter
Ecco; Published: 2009-05-12; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $1.77
Price in other shops:
Brotherhood of Warriors: Behind Enemy Lines with a Commando in One of the World's Most Elite Counterterrorism Unitsby Aaron Cohen, Douglas Century
Ecco; Published: 2008-04-29; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $6.80
Price in other shops:
Not Lost Forever: My Story of Survivalby Carmina Salcido, Steve Jackson
William Morrow; Published: 2009-10-06; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $4.99
Price in other shops:
Unlocked: The Life and Crimes of a Mafia Insiderby Louis Ferrante
Harper Perennial; Published: 2009-02-24; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.97
Price in other shops:
Writing Places: The Life Journey of a Writer and Teacherby William Zinsser
Harper; Published: 2009-05-19; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $4.08
Price in other shops:
Got the Life: My Journey of Addiction, Faith, Recovery, and Kornby Fieldy
William Morrow; Published: 2009-03-10; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $3.98
Price in other shops:
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.)by Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp
Harper Perennial; Published: 2008-04-29; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.10
Price in other shops:
The Ride of My Lifeby Mat Hoffman
It Books; Published: 2003-09-16; Paperback; Book
Best price: $15.95
Similar Books and other products
Helene Hanff: a Lifeby Helene Hanff, Stephen R. Pastore
Fordham Hill Press; Published: 2010-12-20; Paperback; Book
Best price: $14.80
Price in other shops:
Underfoot in show businessby Helene Hanff
Little, Brown; Published: 1980; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $160.22
Apple of My Eye: A Personal Tour of New Yorkby Helene Hanff
Doubleday; Published: 1978-04; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $96.77
Underfoot in Show Businessby Helene Hanff
Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries; Published: 2007-07-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $39.95
Q's Legacyby Helene Hanff
Little Brown & Co (T); Published: 1985-07; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $50.00
84 Charing Cross RoadSony; Release date: 2002-05-21; DVD
Best price: $8.90
Price in other shops:
Apple of My Eyeby Helene Hanff
Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries; Published: 1995-01-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.12
Price in other shops:
Duchess of Bloomsbury Streetby Helene Hanff
Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries; Published: 1995-01-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $148.80
84, Charing Cross Roadby Helene Hanff
Penguin (Non-Classics); Published: 1990-10-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.10
Price in other shops:
Q's Legacyby Helene Hanff
Penguin (Non-Classics); Published: 1986-08-05; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.11
Price in other shops: