Stella Bain / Anita Shreve.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shreve, Anita.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nurses' aides--Fiction.

Nurses' aides.

World War, 1914-1918--Fiction.

World War, 1914-1918.

War neuroses--Fiction.

War neuroses.

Genre:

Historical fiction.

Physical Description:

265 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2013.

Summary:

"An epic story, set against the backdrop of World War I. When an American woman, Stella Bain, is found suffering from severe shell shock in an exclusive garden in London, surgeon August Bridge and his wife selflessly agree to take her in. A gesture of goodwill turns into something more as Bridge quickly develops a clinical interest in his houseguest. Stella had been working as a nurse's aide near the front, but she can't remember anything prior to four months earlier when she was found wounded on a French battlefield. In a narrative that takes us from London to America and back again, Shreve has created an engrossing and wrenching tale about love and the meaning of memory, set against the haunting backdrop of a war that destroyed an entire generation. "--Provided by publisher.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Green fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780316098861 ;