The Mountain Lion

A Novel

Fiction & Literature, Literary
Cover of the book The Mountain Lion by Jean Stafford, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Author: Jean Stafford ISBN: 9781466896604
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publication: April 4, 2017
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Language: English
Author: Jean Stafford
ISBN: 9781466896604
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication: April 4, 2017
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language: English

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, The Mountain Lion, first published in 1947. Torn between their mother's world of genteel respectability and their grandfather's and uncle's world of cowboy masculinity, neither Molly nor Ralph can find an acceptable adult role to aspire to. As events move to their swift and inevitable conclusion, Stafford uncovers and indicts the social forces that require boys to sacrifice the feminine in order to become men and doom intelligent girls who aren't pretty.

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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, The Mountain Lion, first published in 1947. Torn between their mother's world of genteel respectability and their grandfather's and uncle's world of cowboy masculinity, neither Molly nor Ralph can find an acceptable adult role to aspire to. As events move to their swift and inevitable conclusion, Stafford uncovers and indicts the social forces that require boys to sacrifice the feminine in order to become men and doom intelligent girls who aren't pretty.

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