LoginThe Post-Office Girl (New York Review Books Classics)
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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
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Manufacturer: NYRB Classics
Release date: 15 April 2008
ISBN-10 : 1590172620 | ISBN-13: 9781590172629
Release date: 15 April 2008
ISBN-10 : 1590172620 | ISBN-13: 9781590172629
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