The Postmistress Paperback - 2011
by Sarah Blake
- Used
Filled with stunning parallels to today's world, "The Postmistress"--a "New York Times"-bestseller--is a sweeping novel about the loss of innocence of two extraordinary women and of two countries torn apart by war. "A beautifully written, thought-provoking novel."--Kathryn Stockett, #1 "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Help."
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Details
- Title The Postmistress
- Author Sarah Blake
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Berkley Books, New York
- Date 2011-02-01
- Features Bibliography, Price on Product - Canadian
- Bookseller's Inventory # BOS-V-10b-01068
- ISBN 9780425238691 / 0425238695
- Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 8.2 x 5.07 x 1.02 in (20.83 x 12.88 x 2.59 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, London (England) - History - Bombardment,
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
In 1940, Iris James is the postmistress in coastal Franklin, Massachusetts. Iris knows more about the townspeople than she will ever say, and believes her job is to deliver secrets. Yet one day she does the unthinkable: slips a letter into her pocket, reads it, and doesn't deliver it.
Meanwhile, Frankie Bard broadcasts from overseas with Edward R. Murrow. Her dispatches beg listeners to pay heed as the Nazis bomb London nightly. Most of the townspeople of Franklin think the war can't touch them. But both Iris and Frankie know better...
The Postmistress is a tale of two worlds-one shattered by violence, the other willfully naïve-and of two women whose job is to deliver the news, yet who find themselves unable to do so. Through their eyes, and the eyes of everyday people caught in history's tide, it examines how stories are told, and how the fact of war is borne even through everyday life.
