Stella Bain : a novel
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World War, 1914-1918 > Fiction. War neuroses > Fiction. Amnesiacs > Fiction. |
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Historical fiction. Fiction. |
- ISBN: 0316098868
- ISBN: 9780316098861
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265 pages - Edition 1st ed.
- Publisher New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2013.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 31.00 |
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Summary
Stella Bain
An epic story, set against the backdrop of World War I, from bestselling author Anita Shreve. 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.