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The Post-office Girl (New York Review Books Classics) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Post-office GirlThe post-office girl is Christine, who looks after her ailing mother and toils in a provincial Austrian post office in the years just after the Great War. One afternoon, as she is dozing among the official forms and stamps, a telegraph arrives addressed to her. It is from her rich aunt, who lives in America and writes requesting that Christine join her and her husband in a Swiss Alpine resort. Aft...
Full description- Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
- Published: 12 April 2008
- Format: Paperback 224 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Classics | Fiction In Translation
- ISBN 13: 9781590172629 ISBN 10: 1590172620
- Sales rank: 116,446
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Reviews for The Post-office Girl
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A Good Story
Set in Austria after WW1, the book tells the story of young woman living a life of genteel poverty in a boring public service job in a small town. A wealthy relative visiting from the US invites her to Swiss resort for a holiday, where she is sucked up into the whirl of the leisured class. This visit to "Disneyland" is short-lived and she returns to her real world. The book traces the implications of that experience for her future decisions and actions. It can be read as a the personal history of one individual but also has wider reverberations about the effects of depriving sections of society of opportunity and options. by John B Neil
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