PLEASANT SURPRISE
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A friend asked if i could get this book for her and told me to read it and i fell in love with it. I have never been to New York but feel i have and i want to go back. I felt i was there with her and Patsy and you could almost believe you were as she discribes the scenes so well. It was sad to read about the Twin Towers and know what was instore for them. a great read to take on a trip yourself.
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Interesting and touching
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This is a great book by the author of 84 Charing Cross Road.It's a non-fiction account about a writer (Helene Hanff)who has lived all her adult life in New York and is convinced she knows it like the back of her hand.When she is commissioned to write copy for a book of photographs of the city,she suddenly realises that she actually has never visited the major tourist attractions,so she turns for help to Patsy,a native New Yorker,only to discover that not only has she never visited the Statue of Liberty,she has no idea how to get there!
It's really funny to see these two friends trying to find their way around their home,although I found it very touching when they walk into the lobby of the unfinished World Trade Centre(this was written in 1976) and Helene says,"Welcome to the Twenty-first Century".If you had told her then what terrible tragedy was going to happen to the Apple of her Eye in the Twenty-first Century,she wouldn't have believed it.
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