The Mountain Lion (Faber Editions) by Jean Stafford

The Mountain Lion (Faber Editions) by Jean Stafford

Introduced by Hilton Als, in 'one of the best novels about adolescence in American literature' (New York Times) two siblings come of age in a mountainous wilderness ... 'One of the strangest and angriest novels of the twentieth century.' Lauren Groff 'An extraordinary, savage novel.' Olivia Laing 'I love this novel.' Patricia Lockwood She would not feel safe until the beautiful animal was dead. Ralph and Molly are inseparable siblings: united against the stupidity of daily routines, their prim mother and prissy older sisters, the world of adult authority. One summer, they are sent from their childhood home in suburban Los Angeles to their uncle's Colorado mountain ranch, where they write, hunt, roam. But this untamed wilderness soon becomes tainted by dark stirrings of sexual desire - and as the pressures of growing up drive an irrevocable rift between them, their innocent childhoods hurtle towards a devastating end . . . 'Beautiful, and sensitive, and quickening.' Eileen Myles 'A glimmer of genius.' Rumaan Alam 'Breathtakingly original.' Tessa Hadley 'A brilliant achievement [to] set beside Carson McCullers's masterwork The Member of the Wedding.' Joyce Carol Oates

Jean Stafford (1915-1979) was born in California but raised in Boulder, Colorado, where her family moved after losing their fortune on the stock exchange. Her college years at the University of Colorado were marked by poverty as well as by the suicide of her friend Lucy McKee, who shot herself in Stafford's presence. After graduation, Stafford studied at the University of Heidelberg, and on her return met the poet Robert Lowell, whom she married in New York in 1940 but divorced in 1948, later remarrying twice. In 1944 her debut novel, Boston Adventure, became a bestseller, followed in 1947 by The Mountain Lion. By 1948, the year in which Stafford received a Guggenheim fellowship, her acclaimed stories were regularly appearing in the New Yorker. In 1952 Stafford published a third novel, The Catherine Wheel, and in 1970 was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her Collected Stories. She suffered a stroke in 1976 and died three years later in White Plains, New York, leaving her entire estate to her cleaning woman.

Hilton Als is an award-winning journalist, critic and curator. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1994 and a theatre critic since 2002. In 2017, he won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism. Als is the author of two books: The Women (1996) and White Girls (2014), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the Lambda Literary Award. He is currently a teaching professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and associate professor of writing at Columbia University's School of the Arts. He lives in New York City.

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ISBN 13	9780571368174
ISBN 10	0571368174
Title	The Mountain Lion (Faber Editions)
Author	Jean Stafford
Series	Faber Editions
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Faber & Faber
Year published	2023-08-03
Number of pages	272
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