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The Mountain Lion
by Stafford, Jean
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Faber and Faber. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1948. Hardback. Dust jacket bright and preserved in removable archival film, a number of minute chips and tears along the spine edge and back panel, but otherwise showing no signficant damage; Red cloth boards sharp and clean, lettering lightly tarnished but intact and legible; Edges dusty and showing some very minimal spotting, offsetting evident on ffep but pages otherwise internally clean with no annotation; Binding tight. Overall a very nice, sturdy copy which shows its age a touch. ; 5.1 x 7.5"; 205 pages .
Synopsis
Jean Stafford (1915–1979) was born in Covina, California, the youngest of four children. When she was five her father, an unsuccessful writer of Westerns, lost the bulk of his inherited fortune on the stock exchange. The impoverished family, forced to move, eventually resettled in Boulder, Colorado. Stafford excelled as a student, earning both a B.A. and an M.A. in four years on a scholarship at the University of Colorado, but her college years were marked by poverty as well as by the suicide of her friend Lucy McKee, who shot herself in Stafford’s presence. A fellowship from the University of Heidelberg enabled Stafford to study philology abroad following her graduation. Shortly after her return she met the poet Robert Lowell, whom she married in New York City in 1940. In 1944 she published her first book, Boston Adventure , a best selling novel of manners, and her second and most highly acclaimed novel, The Mountain Lion , followed in 1947—years which also brought the collapse of her marriage to Lowell and a stay in a psychiatric hospital. Stafford began to write short stories, and by 1948, the year in which she received a Guggenheim Fellowship, her work was regularly appearing in The New Yorker . In 1952 Stafford published a third novel, The Catherine Wheel , and in 1970 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her Collected Stories . Stafford was married twice more—to Life editor Oliver Jensen and to the writer A. J. Liebling—but lived out her last fifteen years alone. She suffered a stroke in 1976 and died three years later in White Plains, New York, leaving her entire estate to her cleaning woman. Kathryn Davis is the author of many novels, including Labrador , The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf , Hell , The Walking Tour , The Thin Place , and Versailles . She is the recipient of Guggenheim Fellowship and the 2006 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction. She teaches at Washington University in St. Louis and lives in Vermont.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walden Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 49155
- Title
- The Mountain Lion
- Author
- Stafford, Jean
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Date Published
- 1948
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Walden Books
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London, Greater London
About Walden Books
Second-hand and antiquarian booksellers since 1977, in present shop since 1979, open Thurs-Sunday, with an emphasis on History of Art and Architecture, Photography, Literature and Poetry, Literary Biography and Criticism and the the History of London.
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- Spine
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