"Miss Stafford writes with brilliance. Scene after scene is told with unforgettable care and tenuous entanglements are treated with wise subtlety. She creates a splendid sense of time, of the unending afternoons of youth, and of the actual color of noon and of night. Refinement of evil, denial of drama only make the underlying truth more terrible. " --Saturday Review "Hard to match . . . for subtlety and understanding. . . written wittily, lucidly, and with great respect for the resources of the language. " --New Yorker 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, 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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Used availability for Jean Stafford's The Mountain Lion
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Hardback Editions
April 1972 : Hardback
| Title: The Mountain Lion. Author(s): Jean, Stafford ISBN: 0-374-21402-6 / 978-0-374-21402-9 (USA edition) Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 1948 : Hardback
| Title: The Mountain Lion Author(s): Jean Stafford Publisher: Faber & Faber, Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
January 1947 : Hardback
| Title: The Mountain Lion Author(s): Jean Stafford Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York Availability: Amazon More details... |
Paperback Editions
August 2010 : Paperback
| Title: The Mountain Lion (New York Review Books Classics) Author(s): Jean Stafford ISBN: 1-59017-352-X / 9781590173527 (USA edition) Publisher: NYRB Classics Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 1993 : Paperback
| Title: The Mountain Lion Author(s): Jean Stafford Publisher: Texas U. Press Availability: Amazon More details... |
April 1992 : Paperback
| Title: The Mountain Lion (A Zia Book) Author(s): Jean Stafford ISBN: 0-292-75136-2 / 978-0-292-75136-1 (USA edition) Publisher: University of Texas Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
August 1988 : Paperback
| Title: The Mountain Lion Author(s): Jean Stafford ISBN: 0-7012-0711-6 / 978-0-7012-0711-3 (UK edition) Publisher: The Hogarth Press Ltd Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
March 1983 : Mass Market Paperback
| Title: The Mountain Lion Author(s): Jean Stafford ISBN: 0-525-48031-5 / 978-0-525-48031-0 (USA edition) Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
1977 : Paperback
| Title: The mountain lion (A Zia book) Author(s): Jean Stafford ISBN: 0-8263-0432-X / 978-0-8263-0432-2 (USA edition) Publisher: University of New Mexico Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
1962 : Mass Market Paperback
| Title: The Mountain Lion Author(s): Jean Stafford Publisher: Popular Availability: Amazon More details... |
1947 : Paperback
| Title: Mountain Lion Author(s): Jean Stafford Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Co Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
Other Editions
1977 : Unknown
| Title: The mountain lion (A Zia book) Author(s): Jean Stafford Publisher: University of New Mexico Press Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
1972 : Unknown
| Title: The mountain lion Author(s): Jean Stafford Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
1948 : Unknown
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