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Penguin
February 2011
On Sale: February 1, 2011
Featuring: Iris James; Frankie Bard
384 pages
ISBN: 0425238695
EAN: 9780425238691
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The New York Times bestseller- "A beautifully
written, thought-provoking novel." -#1 New York Times
bestselling author Kathryn Stockett. 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.
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