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005			20231009193016.0
008			092210s2008 nyu 000 0 eng
010			_a2007048130
020			_a9781590172629
050	0	0	_aPT2653.W42 _bR313 2008
082	0	0	_aFIC ZWE
100	1		_aZweig, Stefan _d(1881-1942)
240	1	0	_aRausch der Verwandlung _l. English
245	1	4	_aThe post-office girl _c/ Stefan Zweig ; translated from the German by Joel Rotenberg.
260			_aNew York _b: New York Review Books _c, c2008.
300			_a257 p. _c; 21 cm.
490	0		_aNew York Review Books classics
520			_aThe 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.
650		4	_aWomen postal employees _v--Fiction
650		4	_aVeterans _x--Fiction
651		4	_aAustria _v--Fiction
655		7	_aNoir fiction
700	1		_aRotenberg, Joel
942			_cMO
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