cover image Stella Landry

Stella Landry

Robin McCorquodale. Avon Books, $8 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-380-71882-5

In this deeply affecting novel, a Literary Guild alternate in cloth, McCorquodale writes in the indelible voice of a young Texas woman of mid-century who gradually reveals a girlhood consisting of sorrow, cruel betrayals and a few carefully treasured moments of joy. (Aug.)