{"product_id":"the-mountain-lion-paperback","title":"The Mountain Lion - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJean Stafford\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eKathryn Davis\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEight-year-old Molly and her ten-year-old brother Ralph are inseparable, in league with each other against the stodgy and stupid routines of school and daily life; against their prim mother and prissy older sisters; against the world of authority and perhaps the world itself. One summer they are sent from the genteel Los Angeles suburb that is their home to backcountry Colorado, where their uncle Claude has a ranch. There the children encounter an enchanting new world--savage, direct, beautiful, untamed--to which, over the next few years, they will return regularly, enjoying a delicious double life. And yet at the same time this other sphere, about which they are both so passionate, threatens to come between their passionate attachment to each other. Molly dreams of growing up to be a writer, yet clings ever more fiercely to the special world of childhood. Ralph for his part feels the growing challenge, and appeal, of impending manhood. Youth and innocence are hurtling toward a devastating end.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eComing 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 1947.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJean Stafford (1915-1979) was born in Covina, California, the\u003cbr\u003eyoungest of four children. When she was five her father, an unsuccessful\u003cbr\u003ewriter of Westerns, lost the bulk of his inherited fortune on the\u003cbr\u003estock exchange. The impoverished family, forced to move, eventually\u003cbr\u003eresettled in Boulder, Colorado. Stafford excelled as a student, earning\u003cbr\u003eboth a B.A. and an M.A. in four years on a scholarship at the University\u003cbr\u003eof Colorado, but her college years were marked by poverty as well as\u003cbr\u003eby the suicide of her friend Lucy McKee, who shot herself in Stafford's\u003cbr\u003epresence. A fellowship from the University of Heidelberg enabled\u003cbr\u003eStafford to study philology abroad following her graduation. Shortly\u003cbr\u003eafter her return she met the poet Robert Lowell, whom she married in\u003cbr\u003eNew York City in 1940. In 1944 she published her first book, \u003ci\u003eBoston\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdventure\u003c\/i\u003e, a best selling novel of manners, and her second and most\u003cbr\u003ehighly acclaimed novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Mountain Lion\u003c\/i\u003e, followed in 1947--years\u003cbr\u003ewhich also brought the collapse of her marriage to Lowell and a stay\u003cbr\u003ein a psychiatric hospital. Stafford began to write short stories, and by\u003cbr\u003e1948, the year in which she received a Guggenheim Fellowship, her\u003cbr\u003ework was regularly appearing in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1952 Stafford\u003cbr\u003epublished a third novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Catherine Wheel\u003c\/i\u003e, and in 1970 she was\u003cbr\u003eawarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her \u003ci\u003eCollected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eStafford was married twice more--to \u003ci\u003eLife \u003c\/i\u003eeditor Oliver Jensen and to\u003cbr\u003ethe writer A. J. Liebling--but lived out her last fifteen years alone.\u003cbr\u003eShe suffered a stroke in 1976 and died three years later in White\u003cbr\u003ePlains, New York, leaving her entire estate to her cleaning woman. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKathryn Davis is the author of many novels, including \u003ci\u003eLabrador\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Girl Who Trod on a Loaf\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHell\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Walking Tour\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Thin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlace\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eVersailles\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the recipient of Guggenheim Fellowship\u003cbr\u003eand the 2006 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction. She teaches at\u003cbr\u003eWashington University in St. Louis and lives in Vermont.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.68 x 7.98 x 5.34 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 10, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47247073149177,"sku":"9781590173527","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/Uks4TUNlSkJmVkRGVExrQVg0NWZVdz09.webp?v=1768620842","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-mountain-lion-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}