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For me, the book was all about the dualities of life. Jean staffords olympian detachment published by user, 11 years ago jean stafford is primarily known today if at all for her marriages to robert lowell and a. Liebling, was the heralded author of three novels and many short stories. Books go search best sellers gift ideas new releases. The mountain lion by jean stafford audio book chapter 07. Nov 19, 2019 the mountain lion is rightly hailed as staffords greatest novel. Stafford s writing is nononsense, to the point, and haunting. Three novels from the pulitzer prizewinning author include the tale of a girl trying to escape poverty as the secretarycompanion of a socialite and of a boy and his beloved aunt. Jan 08, 2020 three novels from the pulitzer prizewinning author include the tale of a girl trying to escape poverty as the secretarycompanion of a socialite and of a boy and his beloved aunt who are both. New edition of jean stafford s novels roams as many. A gifted writer gets her due stafford is often remembered as wife no.
Boston adventure, mountain lion and the catherine wheel by jean stafford. The mountain lion is a family novel, and it starts with four kids living with their widowed mother, whos been through a couple of husbands. The mountain lion is one of the best novels about adolescence in american literature. She followed up this initial success with two more acclaimed novels, the mountain lion 1944 and the catherine wheel 1952, and became a prolific writer of short stories for the new yorker and other prominent magazines. New yorker coming of age in preworld war ii california and colorado brings tragedy to molly and ralph fawcett in jean staffords classic semiautobiographical novel, first published in 1947. Staffords masterpiece, the mountain lion, follows two siblings. Will include dust jacket if it originally came with one. Torn between their mothers world of genteel respectability and their grandfathers and uncles world of cowboy masculinity, neither molly nor. The mountain lion, her second novel, is a devastating, unconventional comingofage story. California versus colorado, the city versus the wilderness, civilization and nature, childhood and adulthood, life and death. Eightyearold molly and her tenyearold brother ralph are inseparable. Jean staffords novels frankly survey the kingdom of. In mountain lion, sibling love becomes loathing jean stafford s powerful, 1947 novel chronicles the gradual dissolution of a brothersister bond.
In 1944 she published her first book, boston adventure, a best selling novel of manners, and her second and most highly acclaimed novel, the mountain lion, followed in 1947years which also brought the collapse of her marriage to lowell and a stay in a psychiatric hospital. Overview edit eightyearold molly and her tenyearold brother ralph are inseparable. The mountain lion by jean stafford fantastic fiction. Boston adventure the mountain lion the catherine wheel the collected stories of jean stafford the writing remains precisely honed, the sensibility intelligent and seemingly impartial. The mountain lion is a 1947 novel by jean stafford. Refinement of evil, denial of drama only make the underlying truth more terrible. On a colorado ranch, two children from california, molly and ralph, come face to face with an alien world of open spaces, rearing horses and a strange landscape. Jean stafford s most popular book is the collected stories of jean stafford.
The mountain lion by jean stafford english paperback book free shipping the mountain lion by jean stafford estimated delivery 312 business days format paperback condition brand new description originally published. Stafford s final years were a chronicle of painful decline, her demons in full sway. Writer sigrid nunez describes the tale as a comingofage story, not just for the siblings but also for their relationship. But to encounter her here is to recall molly and ralphs breathtaking first glimpse of the mountain lion. Jean stafford s olympian detachment published by user, 11 years ago jean stafford is primarily known today if at all for her marriages to robert lowell and a. The mountain lion by stafford, jean used books and rare. All of this is bolsterd by staffords writing style, or rather two styles, which further reinforce the conflicts within the story. With a distinc tive, unsentimental voice, pulitzer prize winner jean stafford. Click download or read online button to get jean stafford book now. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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Jean stafford 19151979 was the author of three novels, boston adventure, the mountain lion, and the catherine wheel, as well as a body of acclaimed short fiction, available in the collected stories of jean stafford. When she was five her father, an unsuccessful writer of west. She followed this remarkable debut with two more acclaimed novels, the mountain lion 1947 and the catherine wheel 1952. The mountain lion book by jean stafford 4 available. The mountain lion has 4 available editions to buy at half price books marketplace. The mountain lion is rightly hailed as staffords greatest novel. The mountain lion by jean stafford, 9781590173527, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. The mountain lion is likely to beguile many a reader into thinking that he has hold of merely a. She followed up this initial success with two more acclaimed novels, the mountain lion 1944 and the catherine wheel 1952, and became a prolific writer of short stories for the new. Books by jean stafford author of the collected stories of. Nov 26, 2019 stafford s final years were a chronicle of painful decline, her demons in full sway.
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She creates a splendid sense of time, of the unending afternoons of youth, and of the actual color of noon and of night. But where the river, in its very paucity of emphasis on the emotional levels, stirred me profoundly. You begin the novel wary of tragedy, anticipating brokenness and allaround disaster. Jean stafford s introduction to her 1947 novel, the mountain lion, closes with. Like everything stafford wrote, this is a funny, dark book. The mountain lion a zia book 97802927561 by stafford, jean and a great selection of similar new, used and collectible books available now at great prices. The mountain lion by jean stafford 2010, paperback for sale.
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