Sarah Blake is the author of the novels Grange House, the New York Times bestseller The Postmistress, and The Guest Book. She lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband, the poet Joshua Weiner, and their two sons/5(). The Postmistress is one of those rare books. When I wasn’t reading it, I was thinking about it. Sarah Blake seamlessly moves from inside one character to another, in a novel that reminds us of a time when the news travelled from post to paper to radio and that is how we learned about the www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 3 mins. Praise for The Postmistress “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 www.doorway.rusionate, insightful, and unsentimental, this masterful novel is told in a rare and highly successful /5().
The world, as Sarah Blake and Frankie Bard insist, should have paid far more attention. Frankie's passion about this causes the middle section of The Postmistress to soar, and the book is extremely emotionally affecting. I thought Blake did a wonderful job in capturing the quaintness, and the mean-spiritedness that exists in almost every. Sarah Blake is the author of the novels The Guest Book, Grange House, and the New York Times bestseller The Postmistress. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and two sons. In , the postmistress of a small town on Cape Cod does the unthinkable: she doesn't deliver a letter. In Massachusetts, both Emma Fitch, the doctor's wife, and Iris James, the postmistress, listen intently to Frankie's wireless messages from the safety of Cape Cod. The novel centres on these three women whose lives intersect, and Sarah Blake skilfully uses them to address the intricacies of internal strife.
Sarah Blake is the author of the novels The Guest Book, Grange House, and the New York Times bestseller The Postmistress. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and two sons. From the Back Cover. In , the postmistress of a small town on Cape Cod does the unthinkable: she doesn’t deliver a letter. Filled with stunning parallels to today's world, The Postmistress is a sweeping novel about the loss of innocence of two extraordinary women-and of two countries torn apart by war. On the eve of the United States's entrance into World War II in , Iris James, the postmistress of Franklin, a small town on Cape Cod, does the unthinkable: She doesn't deliver a letter. Praise for The Postmistress “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.
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