In the Cage and Other Stories
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Trapped behind the brass grille of a suburban London telegraph office, an unnamed young woman finds her only escape in the illicit romances of the wealthy elite. As she processes the frantic, encoded telegrams of her high-society customers, she begins to weave elaborate, voyeuristic narratives around them, effectively living vicariously through the lives of the aristocrats she serves. Her growing obsession with a particular couple and their precarious affair brings her into a complex web of social maneuvering, forcing her to confront the stark limitations of her own life and the rigid class boundaries of the fin de siècle era.
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$2.56In the Cage and Other Stories
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Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Trapped behind the brass grille of a suburban London telegraph office, an unnamed young woman finds her only escape in the illicit romances of the wealthy elite. As she processes the frantic, encoded telegrams of her high-society customers, she begins to weave elaborate, voyeuristic narratives around them, effectively living vicariously through the lives of the aristocrats she serves. Her growing obsession with a particular couple and their precarious affair brings her into a complex web of social maneuvering, forcing her to confront the stark limitations of her own life and the rigid class boundaries of the fin de siècle era.
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Trapped behind the brass grille of a suburban London telegraph office, an unnamed young woman finds her only escape in the illicit romances of the wealthy elite. As she processes the frantic, encoded telegrams of her high-society customers, she begins to weave elaborate, voyeuristic narratives around them, effectively living vicariously through the lives of the aristocrats she serves. Her growing obsession with a particular couple and their precarious affair brings her into a complex web of social maneuvering, forcing her to confront the stark limitations of her own life and the rigid class boundaries of the fin de siècle era.
