000			01371nam a2200253 i 4500
001			008732
005			20231009192115.0
008			140610s2013 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a2013025618
020			_a9780316098861
042			_apcc
050	0	0	_aPS3569.H7385 _bS69 2013
082	0	0	_aFIC SHR
100	1		_aShreve, Anita
245	1	0	_aStella Bain _b: a novel _c/ Anita Shreve
250			_aFirst Edition.
260			_aNew York _b: Little Brown and Company _c, 2013
300			_a265 p. _c; 25 cm
520			_aWhen 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.
650		4	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _v--Fiction
650		0	_aWar neuroses _v--Fiction
655		7	_aHistorical fiction
942			_cMO
999			_c228290 _d228290