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Stella Descending (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781400030941)
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xOn a warm summer night in Oslo, Martin draws Stella into one of the risky games that have defined their ten years together: a balancing act on the edge of their rooftop, nine stories up. "Exquisitely written. . . . As hallucinatory as August heat." -The Washington Post Amid the shouts of horrified onlookers, Stella stumbles, falling for a moment into Martin's arms before plummeting to her death. (Did he try to save her?)
So begins Linn Ullmann's transfixing tale of Stella--jealous wife, forbearing lover, angelic nurse, unloved daughter, devoted mother, and finally, a woman possessed of a secret now for-ever lost to the living. As Stella's life unfolds in the recollections of those she has left behind, we observe the fabric of many lives unraveling. And as Stella herself bears witness from a place beyond death, we come to understand how precarious her life was behind its facade of loveliness and order. With a quiet power, Stella Descending gives us the backlit dailiness--and the dark metaphysical underworld--of life in a fabled metropolis. And in brilliantly evoking the loneliness that haunts all our intimacies, it becomes a fable of life everywhere.
Author: Linn Ullmann
ISBN-10: 1400030943
ISBN-13: 9781400030941
Publisher: Anchor Books
Language: English
Published: 07/13/2004
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.16w x 0.55d
So begins Linn Ullmann's transfixing tale of Stella--jealous wife, forbearing lover, angelic nurse, unloved daughter, devoted mother, and finally, a woman possessed of a secret now for-ever lost to the living. As Stella's life unfolds in the recollections of those she has left behind, we observe the fabric of many lives unraveling. And as Stella herself bears witness from a place beyond death, we come to understand how precarious her life was behind its facade of loveliness and order. With a quiet power, Stella Descending gives us the backlit dailiness--and the dark metaphysical underworld--of life in a fabled metropolis. And in brilliantly evoking the loneliness that haunts all our intimacies, it becomes a fable of life everywhere.
Author: Linn Ullmann
ISBN-10: 1400030943
ISBN-13: 9781400030941
Publisher: Anchor Books
Language: English
Published: 07/13/2004
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.16w x 0.55d
By Linn Ullmann
xBorn in 1966, Linn Ullmann is a graduate of New York University, where she studied English literature and began her graduate studies before returning to Oslo in 1990 to pursue a career in journalism. She had established herself as a prominent literary critic when her first novel, Before You Sleep, was published in 1998 and became a critically acclaimed best-seller throughout Europe. She writes a column for Norway's leading newspaper and lives in Oslo with her husband, son, two stepchildren, and a dog.
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