US: Pan Macmillan, 2003. Paperback. Good. On a warm summer night in Oslo, Martin draws Stella into one of the risky g ames that have defined their ten years together: a balancing act on the edg e of their rooftop, seven stories up. Amid the shouts of horrified onlooker s, Stella stumbles, falling for a moment into Martin's arms before plummeti ng to her death. (Did he try to save her?)So begins Linn Ullmann's transfix ing tale of a jealous wife, compliant mistress, treasured friend, angelic n urse, unloved daughter, devoted mother - and finally, a woman possessed of a secret now forever lost to the living. As Stella's life unfolds in the re collections of those she has left beind, we observe the fabric of many unra velling lives. And as Stella herself bears witness from a place beyond deat h, we come to understand how precarious her life was behind its facade of l oveliness and order. With a quiet power, STELLA DESCENDING gives us the backlit dailiness - and the dark metaphysical underworld - of life in a fabled metropolis. And in brilliantly evoking the loneliness that haunts all our intimacies, it becomes a fable of life everywhere.

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Born in 1966, Linn Ullmann is a graduate of New York University, where she studied English literature and began her graduate studies before returning to Oslo in 1990 to pursue a career in journalism. She had established herself as a prominent literary critic when her first novel, Before You Sleep , was published in 1998 and became a critically acclaimed best-seller throughout Europe. She writes a column for Norway's leading newspaper and lives in Oslo with her husband, son, two stepchildren, and a dog.

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Bookseller: Infinity Books Japan (JP)
Bookseller's Inventory #: RWARE0000052846
Title: Stella Descending
Author: Ullmann, Linn
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Good
Quantity Available: 1
ISBN 10: 0330411640
ISBN 13: 9780330411646
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Place of Publication: US
Date Published: 2003

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