"... the surest sign that a new year is beginning is that everybody is on a self-improvement-drive. From at 8th Street, to at 68th, half of New York is registering at some college for night courses in Philosophy or the History of Art which most of them will drop out of on the first sleeting winter night. And I, who hate novels, have begun lugging Joyce Carol Oates and V. S. Naipaul and Doris Lessing home from the library, in an attempt to Improve my Mind."
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Helene Hanff
(April 15, 1916 – April 9, 1997) was an American writer, known for her book '. The book consists of letters spanning 20 years of correspondence between Helen Hanff in Manhattan and a book shop in London.
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