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Killing Stella

Killing Stella | Marlen Haushofer

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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.

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Killing Stella | Marlen Haushofer

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A very bleak story about a woman taking care of her friend‘s daughter. Although taking care of is an exaggeration: she mostly just tolerates Stella‘s presence and drives her straight into the arms of evil. We don‘t get to know Stella but all other characters I kind of hated.

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TrishB Great review and pic 👍🏻 3w

squirrelbrain What @TrishB said! ☺️ 3w

Lesliereadsalot Exactly! Hope you‘re having a really fun time. 3w

sarahbarnes I‘m planning to get to this one before the end of the year! Great pic! 3w

Suet624 Well, that‘s definitely one to skip 3w

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Killing Stella | Marlen Haushofer

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A short, bleak novella about a man who uses woman, a wife who ignores the problem and a young woman - the daughter of a friend - that comes to live with them. Lives are upended and no one redeems themselves.

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Killing Stella | Marlen Haushofer

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A powerful 87 page novella. When Anna‘s friend asks if her teenage daughter can stay with her for a year, Anna agrees having no idea of the impact this will have on her husband, two children and the girl herself. This decision will turn their lives upside down, and not in a good way. Poor Anna, and poor everyone else as well.

BarbaraBB Sounds great. I think I recognize the author‘s name? Must check! 4mo

Lesliereadsalot The Wall? @BarbaraBB 4mo

BarbaraBB Of course! One I enjoyed very much 4mo

BarbaraBB I just found a new one by her!

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Lesliereadsalot @BarbaraBB Ooh…I‘ll look for it, thanks! 3mo

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