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P.O. Box Love: A Novel of Letters
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P.O. Box Love: A Novel of Letters Hardcover - 2012

by Calvetti, Paola


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A charming epistolary novel that chronicles the love story between Emma and Frederico, former high school sweethearts who meet again thirty years later.

At Dreams & Desires, 50-year-old Emma's quaint bookshop in Milan dedicated to romantic fiction, the passionate bookseller serves coffee and tea to her customers and completes order slips in pen rather than using a computer. One day, she finds a mysterious handwritten note stuck between the pages of a novel. The message is from her high school sweetheart Frederico, who is now a successful architect in New York and whom she hasn't seen in thirty years. When she finally meets Frederico again, Emma is convinced that her life is about to turn into a romance novel - an intercontinental fairy tale between Milan and New York, between two post office boxes and two lovers that are separated by the Atlantic Ocean and half a life. But Frederico is married, and their epistolary romance, punctuated by once-a-year sojourns on the island of Belle Ile, seems to have no future. Paola Calvetti's "PO Box Love" is an ode to old-fashioned relationships (the ones that last a lifetime), old-fashioned habits (such as writing letters by hand in fountain pen) and old-fashioned notions (such as politeness, and the great lost art of conversation), and will enchant readers of such perennial favorites as "84 Charing Cross Road" by Helene Hanff and "Same Time Next Year" by Bernard Slade.

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  • Title P.O. Box Love: A Novel of Letters
  • Author Calvetti, Paola
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition, 1
  • Pages 358
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher St. Martin's Press, New York
  • Date 2012-01
  • ISBN 9780312625702

About the author

PAOLA CALVETTI has been a journalist with La Repubblica and a publicist for Milan's La Scala Opera. She is the author of five novels and lives in Milan.
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