The Mountain Lion by Jean Stafford
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Ralph and Molly are inseparable siblings: united against the stupidity of daily routines, their prim mother and prissy older sisters, the world of adult authority. One summer, they are sent from their childhood home in suburban Los Angeles to their uncle's Colorado mountain ranch, where they write, hunt, roam. But this untamed wilderness soon becomes tainted by dark stirrings of sexual desire - and as the pressures of growing up drive an irrevocable rift between them, their innocent childhoods hurtle towards a devastating end . . .
REVIEWS
"Like Flaubert and Welty, Miss Stafford is a master . One of the best novels about adolescence in American literature." ― New York Times
"I do not know where to turn in contemporary fiction for a more wonderful recording of the sights and smells, the emotions and values, the hates and passions of childhood and youth." ― New York Times
"A stone-cold classic . [The] most bracing and sorrowful re-immersion into childhood's waters that I ever hope to encounter. You ignore this novel . at your own peril." ― LA Review of Books
Outstanding ... Remarkable. -- Miranda Seymour ― NYRB
PRODUCT DETAILS
Paperback with French flaps
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 978-0571368174
Pages: 272
REVIEWS
"Like Flaubert and Welty, Miss Stafford is a master . One of the best novels about adolescence in American literature." ― New York Times
"I do not know where to turn in contemporary fiction for a more wonderful recording of the sights and smells, the emotions and values, the hates and passions of childhood and youth." ― New York Times
"A stone-cold classic . [The] most bracing and sorrowful re-immersion into childhood's waters that I ever hope to encounter. You ignore this novel . at your own peril." ― LA Review of Books
Outstanding ... Remarkable. -- Miranda Seymour ― NYRB
PRODUCT DETAILS
Paperback with French flaps
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 978-0571368174
Pages: 272