The post-office girl
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New York : New York Review Books, 2008.
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New York : New York Review Books, 2008.
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Book
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257 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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"The 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. After a dizzying train ride, Christine finds herself at the top of the world, enjoying a life of privilege that she had never imagined. But Christine's aunt drops her as abruptly as she picked her up, and soon the young woman is back at the provincial post office, consumed with disappointment and bitterness. Then she meets Ferdinand, a wounded but eloquent war veteran who is able to give voice to the disaffection of his generation. Christine's and Ferdinand's lives spiral downward, before Ferdinand comes up with a plan which will be either their salvation or their doom. Never before published in English, this extraordinary book is an unexpected and haunting foray into noir fiction by one of the masters of the psychological novel"--,Provided by publisher.
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Text in English, translated from the German.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Zweig, S., & Rotenberg, J. (2008). The post-office girl . New York Review Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942 and Joel Rotenberg. 2008. The Post-office Girl. New York Review Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942 and Joel Rotenberg. The Post-office Girl New York Review Books, 2008.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Zweig, Stefan, and Joel Rotenberg. The Post-office Girl New York Review Books, 2008.
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