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It is 1950 and Stella has been taken on as assistant stage manager for a Liverpool rep company. She quickly becomes obsessed with their dissolute director, but when the celebrated O'Hara arrives to take the lead, a different drama unfolds. He and Stella are bound in a past neither dares interpret.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Bainbridge, Beryl
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 205
- Publisher
- Isis-Oasis, HarperCollins Publishers, Penguin
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- English, und
- ISBN
- 9780140239201
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