Suite 101

In 1949, Helene Hanff needed out-of-print, antiquarian books: not the “grimy, marked-up” copies at Barnes & Noble, but “clean secondhand copies.” Marks & Company, a bookstore in London, might have what she needed.

I knew the gulf had once covered us here, or more than once, and that whales swam in it — their bones have been unearthed — but these were just lovely little undisturbed seashells — I’ve been sleeping over them 35 feet down under me all these years.”.

BookRack

The way she reads is the way I would love to read too, referring book after book and teaching oneself all about literature.

Time Out New York

David Jones' film of Helene Hanff's book, recording the bizarre transatlantic relationship between a New York bibilophile and a London bookseller, comes as a pleasant surprise.