02532cam a2200361 i 4500 507054598 TxGeo 20210716120000.0 200313s2020||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 9780062978943 trade pbk. 0062978942 trade pbk. (OCoLC)1144495776 TxGeo rda Berg, Gretchen. The operator [large print] : a novel / Gretchen Berg. First Harper large print edition. New York, NY : Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2020. 467 pages ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Nobody knows the people of Wooster, Ohio, better than switchboard operator Vivian Dalton, and she'd be the first to tell you that. She calls it intuition. Her teenage daughter, Charlotte, calls it eavesdropping. Vivian and the other women who work at Bell on East Liberty Street connect lines and lives. They aren't supposed to listen in on conversations, but they do, and they all have opinions on what they hear--especially Vivian. She knows that Mrs. Butler's ungrateful daughter, Maxine, still hasn't thanked her mother for the quilt she made, and that Ginny Frazier turned down yet another invitation to go to the A&W with Clyde Walsh. Then, one cold December night, Vivian listens in on a call between that snob Betty Miller and someone whose voice she can't quite place and hears something shocking. Betty Miller's mystery friend has news that, if true, will shatter Vivian's tidy life in Wooster, humiliating her and making her the laughingstock of the town. Vivian may be mortified, but she isn't going to take this lying down. She's going to get to the bottom of that rumor--get into it, get under it, poke around in the corners. Find every last bit. Vivian wants the truth, no matter how painful it may be."--Publisher's marketing. 20210723. Telephone operators United States 20th century Fiction. Gossip Fiction. Eavesdropping Fiction. Secrecy Fiction. City and town life Fiction. Wooster (Ohio) 20th century Fiction. Historical fiction. Large type books. QS5