Elena
a female given name, form of Helen.
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As Elena progressively gives herself over to the project, boldly inhabiting Ella’s words to recover her life, her identity begins to bleed into that of her subject.
Amanda Dennis’s ‘Her Here’ is a spellbinding existential thriller | Lauren LeBlanc | March 11, 2021 | Washington PostThe novel’s psychological maneuvers increase and build, leading one to question Elena’s reliability as narrator and scribe.
Amanda Dennis’s ‘Her Here’ is a spellbinding existential thriller | Lauren LeBlanc | March 11, 2021 | Washington PostFacing an emotional and intellectual impasse, 29-year-old Elena pauses her longtime relationship and defers her dissertation to reconstruct the life of Ella — the missing daughter of a family friend.
Amanda Dennis’s ‘Her Here’ is a spellbinding existential thriller | Lauren LeBlanc | March 11, 2021 | Washington PostFor a monthly stipend and a free apartment in Paris, Elena will draw from Ella’s salvaged journals to write a first-person story from Ella’s point of view in the hopes of uncovering psychological details that could lead to her return.
Amanda Dennis’s ‘Her Here’ is a spellbinding existential thriller | Lauren LeBlanc | March 11, 2021 | Washington PostThe second season, released last spring, follows Ferrante’s protagonist, Elena, and her friend Lila as they navigate their teen years in 1950s Naples.
The current Court, though, is full not of pols but of judges; only Elena Kagan lacks prior experience as a federal judge.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Levels With Us on Why She’s Not Retiring | Jeff Greenfield | September 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe four liberal justices—Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor—will likely rule for them.
Pennsylvania. Oregon. Is Gay Marriage Unstoppable? | Jay Michaelson | May 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFive days after her husband went missing a politician friend of the family contacted Elena and told her Rybak was dead.
Forty-nine-year-old Elena brings a trembling hand to the bridge of her nose and makes a slashing movement across it.
As a young Harvard professor, Elena Kagan identified President Reagan as the pioneer of the current trend.
How Obama Can Use Executive Actions to Improve Our Democracy | Michael Waldman | April 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThat 'perhaps' made him sadly afraid that Elena would not come.
The Child of Pleasure | Gabriele D'AnnunzioA voice from within, which he recognised as Elena's, called, 'Christina!'
The Child of Pleasure | Gabriele D'AnnunzioElena had spent part of the summer at Lucerne,—she had just come from Paris.
The Child of Pleasure | Gabriele D'AnnunzioAt last Andrea was able to offer Elena his arm and carry her off.
The Child of Pleasure | Gabriele D'AnnunzioWhy should these recollections of Elena come back to him just now?
The Child of Pleasure | Gabriele D'Annunzio
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