Stella Bain : a novel
Shreve, Anita
Stella Bain : a novel / Anita Shreve - First Edition. - New York : Little Brown and Company , 2013 - 265 p. ; 25 cm
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.
9780316098861
2013025618
World War, 1939-1945----Fiction
War neuroses----Fiction
Historical fiction
PS3569.H7385 / S69 2013
FIC SHR
Stella Bain : a novel / Anita Shreve - First Edition. - New York : Little Brown and Company , 2013 - 265 p. ; 25 cm
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.
9780316098861
2013025618
World War, 1939-1945----Fiction
War neuroses----Fiction
Historical fiction
PS3569.H7385 / S69 2013
FIC SHR