Jean Stafford’s The Mountain Lion. We are thrilled to announce that Jean Stafford’s The Mountain Lion is now on sale. Stafford, a writer perhaps best known for her marriages to Robert Lowell, Oliver Jensen, and A.J. Liebling, was the heralded author of three novels and many short stories. The Mountain Lion, her second novel, is a. · The Mountain Lion. by. Jean Stafford. · Rating details · ratings · reviews. Coming of age in pre-World War II California and Colorado brings tragedy to Molly and Ralph Fawcett in Jean Stafford's classic semi-autobiographical novel, first published in Torn between their mother's world of genteel respectability and their 4/5. Home» USA» Jean Stafford» The Mountain Lion Jean Stafford: The Mountain Lion The Fawcett family live in Covina, California, near Los Angeles. Mr. Fawcett died when he was young, leaving his wife, Rose, and four children, Leah, Rachel, Ralph and Molly. The family seems comfortably off. Leah and Rachel are young women.
The Mountain Lion by Jean Stafford, , available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. Praise. The Mountain Lion is likely to beguile many a reader into thinking that he has hold of merely a shrewdly perceptive and amusing novel of children, when what he really has in his hand is a charge of psychological dynamite. —Joseph Henry Jackson, San Francisco Chronicle Like Flaubert and Eudora Welty, Miss Stafford is a master of making the objects in a room exhibit a dumb and eloquent. "Miss Stafford writes with brilliance. Scene after scene is told with unforgettable care and tenuous entanglements are treated with wise subtlety. She creates a splendid sense of time, of the unending afternoons of youth, and of the actual color of noon and of night. Refinement of evil, denial of drama only make the underlying truth more terrible.
Jean Stafford: The Mountain Lion. The Fawcett family live in Covina, California, near Los Angeles. Mr. Fawcett died when he was young, leaving his wife, Rose, and four children, Leah, Rachel, Ralph and Molly. The family seems comfortably off. The Mountain Lion. Coming of age in pre-World War II California and Colorado brings tragedy to Molly and Ralph Fawcett in Jean Stafford's classic semi-autobiographical novel, first published in The Mountain Lion is one of the best novels about adolescence in American literature.” -Guy Davenport, The New York Times “It's a terrific book, witty and smart as Stafford always was, and kind in its treatment of these two strangely irresistible children.” -Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post.
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