{"product_id":"9781429938174","title":"P.O. Box Love: A Novel of Letters","description":"\u003cp\u003eA charming epistolary novel that chronicles the love story between Emma and Frederico, former high school sweethearts who meet again thirty years later.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt Dreams\u0026amp;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 \u003ci\u003ePO Box Love\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003e84 Charing Cross Road\u003c\/i\u003e by Helene Hanff and \u003ci\u003eSame Time Next Year\u003c\/i\u003e by Bernard Slade.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47139296510192,"sku":"9781429938174","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429938174_p0.jpg?v=1769902291","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429938174","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}