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Killing Stella

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Availability:In StockContributor:Marlen Haushofer, Shaun Whiteside (Translator)Publish date:7/8/2025Pages:80
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811238656ISBN-10:811238652UPC:9780811238656Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:World Literature, Literary, PsychologicalBook Topic:AustriaProduct ID:SCEF5T9V4S

Main description: Left alone for the weekend while her husband and two children are visiting her in-laws, the narrator of KILLING STELLA recounts the addition of her friend's daughter, Stella, into their already tense and tumultuous household. Staring out the window at her garden, she worries about the baby bird in the linden tree, about her husband, Richard, who flits from one adulterous affair to another, about her son's gloomy demeanor and her daughter's obliviousness to everything, and, most of all, she worries about Stella, a confused teenager who has just met a sudden and disastrous end.

A domestic horror story that builds to an apocalyptic ending, KILLING STELLA distills many of the themes of Marlen Haushofer's acclaimed novel THE WALL into a claustrophobic, gothic, shattering novella.

Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811238656ISBN-10:811238652UPC:9780811238656Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:World Literature, Literary, PsychologicalBook Topic:AustriaProduct ID:SCEF5T9V4S
Haushofer, Marlen: - Marlen Haushofer (1920-1970) was an Austrian author of short stories, novels, radio plays, and children's books. Her work has had a strong influence on many German-language writers, such as the Nobel Prize-winner Elfriede Jelinek, who dedicated one of her plays to her. The Wall was adapted into the 2012 film, directed by Julian Pölsler and starring Martina Gedeck.Whiteside, Shaun: - Shaun Whiteside's translations from the German include classics by Freud, Musil, and Nietzsche.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation

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