The Falling Woman by Susan Hawthorne

The Falling Woman

Susan Hawthorne

TOP TWENTY TITLE, Listener Women’s Book Festival

One woman’s journey into the heart’s landscape is mirrored by a haunting desert odyssey in this novel told in three voices–Stella, Estella, and Estelle. The narration follows Stella from birth to age 29 as she confronts epilepsy, death, and lesbianism; Estella as she confronts the Australian desert and the metaphoric edge of her consciousness with her lover Olga; and Estelle, the timeless, mythical voice of women in different cultures and times sharing their stories that range from the mundane to the frightening. The final chapter draws all three voices together through an analogy of comets, snakes, and stars, in which Stella becomes Estella and Estelle and they move into a literal cosmic realm as one.


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Details

ISBN 1875559043
Genre Fiction
Publication Date 28-May-03
Publisher Spinifex Press
Format Trade Paperback
No. of Pages 288
Language English
Rating NotRated
BookID 3769

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