The Mountain Lion
Download or Read eBook The Mountain Lion PDF written by Jean Stafford and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Author | : Jean Stafford |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2017-04-04 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781466896604 |
ISBN-13 | : 1466896604 |
Rating | : 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Mountain Lion by : Jean Stafford
Book excerpt: 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.