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Killing Stella / Marlen Haushofer ; translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside.
Van Pelt Library PT2617.A425 W513 2025
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Snack Haushofer Killing
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haushofer, Marlen, 1920-1970, Author.
- Standardized Title:
- Wir töten Stella. English http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/68f937a7-c1d8-b9af-a8ef-fe4fd884cd59
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Family secrets--Fiction.
- Family secrets.
- Adultery--Fiction.
- Adultery.
- Teenage girls--Death--Fiction.
- Teenage girls.
- Worry--Fiction.
- Worry.
- Genre:
- Horror fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Novels
- Horror fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 87 pages ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2025.
- Summary:
- "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, 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"-- Provided by publisher.
- "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 an- other), about her son's gloomy demeanor and her daughter's obliviousness, 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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- "A New Directions paperbook original".
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780811238656
- 0811238652
- OCLC:
- 1457623612
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