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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 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! 3mo
BarbaraBB Of course! One I enjoyed very much 3mo
BarbaraBB I just found a new one by her! 2mo
Lesliereadsalot @BarbaraBB Ooh…I‘ll look for it, thanks! 2mo
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