Jean Stafford: Complete Novels (LOA #324): Boston Adventure /

Jean Stafford: Complete Novels (LOA #324): Boston Adventure / The Mountain Lion / The Catherine Wheel (Library of America, 324)

For the first time in a deluxe hardcover edition, three eerily powerful novels by a midcentury master of social satire andÂ psychological portraiture

Jean Stafford (1915-1979) made a bold entrance onto the American literary scene in 1944 when her first novel, Boston Adventure became a surprise best seller. 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. (Her Collected Stories won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1970.) In later years serious health problems made it increasingly difficult for her to write, and after her death she became a somewhat overlooked figure in 20th-century American literature. Complete Novels allows readers to rediscover "a figure of genuine consequence in American literature" (Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post) at the height of her powers.

Boston Adventure follows Sonia Marburg, the daughter of immigrant parents, as she seeks to escape her impoverished childhood by becoming the secretary-companion of the socially prominent Lucy Pride. The novel won praise for its perceptive satire of upper-class Boston society, while Stafford's portrayal of the inner life of her protagonist drew comparisons to Henry James and Marcel Proust. In The Mountain Lion Stafford drew on her childhood memories of southern California and Colorado to tell the story of Molly Fawcett, her brother Ralph, and their shared journey through the treacherous passage from childhood into adolescence. Set in a country house in Maine, The Catherine Wheel traces the tragic relationship between a lonely boy and his beloved aunt during a summer in which each of them secretly seeks revenge against the people who have betrayed them.
Country USA
Brand Library of America
Manufacturer Library of America
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber unknown
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2019-11-19
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781598536447

Country	USA
Brand	Library of America
Manufacturer	Library of America
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	unknown
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	2019-11-19
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781598536447

Jean Stafford: Complete Novels (LOA #324): Boston Adventure / The Mountain Lion / The Catherine Wheel (Library of America, 324)

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