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US: Pan Macmillan, 2003. Paperback. Good. On a warm summer night in Oslo, Martin draws Stella into one of the risky g ames that have defined their ten years together: a balancing act on the edg e of their rooftop, seven stories up. Amid the shouts of horrified onlooker s, Stella stumbles, falling for a moment into Martin's arms before plummeti ng to her death. (Did he try to save her?)So begins Linn Ullmann's transfix ing tale of a jealous wife, compliant mistress, treasured friend, angelic n urse, unloved daughter, devoted mother - and finally, a woman possessed of a secret now forever lost to the living. As Stella's life unfolds in the re collections of those she has left beind, we observe the fabric of many unra velling lives. And as Stella herself bears witness from a place beyond deat h, we come to understand how precarious her life was behind its facade of l oveliness and order. With a quiet power, STELLA DESCENDING gives us the backlit dailiness - and the dark metaphysical underworld - of…
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- Title Stella Descending
- Author Ullmann, Linn
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 243
- Publisher Picador, London, England
- Date January 16, 2004
- ISBN 9780330411646
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