Thanks to manillan for 3d visuals and to youtube user timsvideochannel1 for rail footage. Jean stafford s introduction to her 1947 novel, the mountain lion, closes with. Coming of age in preworld war ii california and colorado brings. The mountain lion by jean stafford audio book chapter 07. Liebling and for her short stories, most of which were originally published in the new yorker and gathered in an anthology that earned her the pulitzer prize in 1970. Books by jean stafford author of the collected stories of. The mountain lion by jean stafford fantastic fiction. 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. Nonetheless, once again one acknowledges that jean stafford is. Stafford s final years were a chronicle of painful decline, her demons in full sway. The mountain lion by jean stafford is stunning in terms of prose and story in its beautiful evocation of california and colorado settings, but most memorably in relating the disgust of children for adults. He is editing the selected writings of delmore schwartz and working on a collection of essays. Jean stafford s most popular book is the collected stories of jean stafford.
The mountain lion by jean stafford, 9781590173527, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Boston adventure the mountain lion the catherine wheel by jean stafford and kathryn davis. Oct 17, 2017 but as the book proceeded i began to see a doubleness there stafford s speaking truthfully about her era without being simply of it. The mountain lion is a 1947 novel by jean stafford. The mountain lion is rightly hailed as staffords greatest novel. When she was five her father, an unsuccessful writer of west. The mountain lion is one of the best novels about adolescence in american literature. 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. Stafford, a writer perhaps best known for her marriages to robert lowell, oliver jensen, and a.
Stafford s writing is nononsense, to the point, and haunting. 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. In mountain lion, sibling love becomes loathing jean stafford s powerful, 1947 novel chronicles the gradual dissolution of a brothersister bond. Jean stafford 19151979 made a bold entrance onto the american literary scene in 1944 when her first novel, boston adventure became a surprise best seller. She followed this remarkable debut with two more acclaimed novels, the mountain lion 1947 and the catherine wheel 1952. The mountain lion by jean stafford, paperback barnes. New yorker coming of age in preworld war ii california and colorado brings tragedy to molly and ralph fawcett in jean stafford s classic semiautobiographical novel, first published in 1947. Click download or read online button to get jean stafford book now. But where the river, in its very paucity of emphasis on the emotional levels, stirred me profoundly.
All of this is bolsterd by staffords writing style, or rather two styles, which further reinforce the conflicts within the story. 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. Original text contains outdated cultural depictions and language. Jean staffords novels frankly survey the kingdom of. The mountain lion by jean stafford audio book chapter. Overview edit eightyearold molly and her tenyearold brother ralph are inseparable. 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. You begin the novel wary of tragedy, anticipating brokenness and allaround disaster. Jean stafford has 58 books on goodreads with 19976 ratings. Jean stafford collection roams as many extremes as. Books go search best sellers gift ideas new releases.
For me, the book was all about the dualities of life. Jean stafford download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. The mountain lion managed to transfer its bitterness, to leave me with a bad taste in the mouth, but with a certain callous indifference. Jean stafford communicates the small details of loneliness and connection, the search for freedom, and the desire to belong, that not only illuminate whole lives but also convey with an elegant economy of words the sense of the place and time in which her protagonists find themselves. Writer sigrid nunez describes the tale as a comingofage story, not just for the siblings but also for their relationship. 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 jean stafford july 1, 1915 march 26, 1979 was an american short story writer and novelist. 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. The mountain lion, her second novel, is a devastating, unconventional comingofage story. Jean stafford 19151979 was born in covina, california, the youngest of four children. 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. Nov 26, 2019 stafford s final years were a chronicle of painful decline, her demons in full sway. Jean staffords powerful, 1947 novel chronicles the gradual dissolution of a brothersister bond. Liebling, was the heralded author of three novels and many short stories.
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. Twentynineyearold jean stafford made a bold entrance onto the american literary scene in 1944 when her first novel, boston adventure, became a surprise best seller, its style inviting comparisons to james and proust. Among stafford s many strengths as a writer of fiction are a sharp poetic eye for the telling detail. Will include dust jacket if it originally came with one.
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. Like everything stafford wrote, this is a funny, dark book. Jean staffords novels frankly survey the kingdom of childhood. Jean stafford also wrote boston adventure and a collection of short stories. The mountain lion by stafford, jean used books and rare. 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. 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.
Nonetheless, once again one acknowledges that jean stafford is a writer to watch. The mountain lion has 4 available editions to buy at half price books marketplace. Torn between their mothers world of genteel respectability and their grandfathers and uncles world of cowboy masculinity, neither molly nor ralph can find an acceptable adult role to aspire to. Craig morgan teichers most recent book is to keep love blurry boa editions, 2012. Staffords masterpiece, the mountain lion, follows two siblings. New edition of jean stafford s novels roams as many. But to encounter her here is to recall molly and ralphs breathtaking first glimpse of the mountain lion. The mountain lion is a novel unlike any other about coming of age.
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. 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. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Boston adventure, mountain lion and the catherine wheel by jean stafford.
Boston adventure the mountain lion the catherine wheel by jean stafford, kathryn davis editor online at alibris. Eightyearold molly and her tenyearold brother ralph are inseparable. California versus colorado, the city versus the wilderness, civilization and nature, childhood and adulthood, life and death. Guy davenport, the new york times its a terrific book, witty and smart as stafford always was, and kind in its treatment of these two strangely irresistible children. Refinement of evil, denial of drama only make the underlying truth more terrible. Nov 19, 2019 the mountain lion is rightly hailed as staffords greatest novel. The mountain lion book by jean stafford 4 available. With a distinc tive, unsentimental voice, pulitzer prize winner jean stafford. 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.
She creates a splendid sense of time, of the unending afternoons of youth, and of the actual color of noon and of night. The mountain lion by jean stafford book cover, description, publication history. Scene after scene is told with unforgettable care and tenuous entanglements are treated with wise subtlety. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. Brooms the yellow house tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of americas most mythologized cities. The mountain lion is likely to beguile many a reader into thinking that he has hold of merely a. A gifted writer gets her due stafford is often remembered as wife no. Torn between their mothers world of genteel respectability and their grandfathers and uncles world of cowboy masculinity, neither molly nor. Coming of age in preworld war ii california and colorado brings tragedy to molly and ralph fawcett in jean stafford s classic semiautobiographical novel, the mountain lion, first published in 1947. I started to realize that this is an astonishing writer. Jan 31, 2020 original text contains outdated cultural depictions and language.
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