The Postmistress [antikvár]

The Postmistress "Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages. The Postmistress is one of those books. When I wasn't reading it, I was thinking about it. The Postmistress made me homesick for a time before I was even born. What's remarkable, however, is how relevant the story is to our present-day times. A beautifully written, thought-provoking novel that I'm telling everyone I know to read." —Kathryn Stockett, author of The Help "Some novels we savor for their lapidary prose, others for their flesh-and-blood characters, and still others for a sweeping narrative arc that leaves us light-headed and changed; Sarah Blake's masterful The Postmistress serves us all this and more. Compassionate, insightful, and unsentimental, this masterful novel is told in a rare and highly successful omniscient voice, one that delves deeply into the seemingly random nature of love and war and story itself. This is a superb book!" —Andre Dubus III, author of House of Sand and Fog "Sarah Blake has coaxed forth a book that hits hard and pushes buttons expertly. . . . The real strength of The Postmistress lies in its ability to strip away readers' defenses against stories of wartime uncertainty and infuse that chaos with wrenching immediacy and terror. Ms. Blake writes powerfully about the fragility of life . . . how a person can be present in one instant and then in the next, gone forever. . . . The nobility on Ms. Blake's pages triumphs over the fear, which is one explanation of why this book will click in a major way. Another is that Ms. Blake knows how to deliver tragic turns of fate with maximum impact." —The New York Times continued . . .