Jean Stafford The Mountain Lion review, recensie en informatie Amerikaanse roman uit 1947. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster Jean Stafford. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman en over de schrijfster. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.
Jean Stafford The Mountain Lion review en recensie
- “It’s the story of a pair of siblings, 8-year-old Molly and 10-year-old Ralph, and the summers they spend on their uncle’s ranch in Colorado. Stafford treats both natural landscapes and the inner worlds of childhood with extraordinary reverence, as sites of perilous mystery. In her portrayal of Ralph, she writes the single greatest account I know of an adolescent boy coming into his sexuality, a terrifying discovery that alienates him from himself and others.” (Garth Greenwell, The Atlantic)
- “One of the strangest and angriest novels of the twentieth century.” (Lauren Groff)
- “One of the best novels about adolescence in American literature.” (Hilton Als, New York Times)
The Mountain Lion
- Auteur: Jean Stafford (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman uit 1947
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Faber and Faber
- Omvang: 272 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
Flaptekst van de roman van Jean Stafford
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.
Jean Stafford was born on 1 July 1915 in Covina, California. She was an American short story writer and novelist. In 1970 she received 
the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford. In 1940 she published her first novel Boston Adventure, followed in 1947 with The Mountain Lion. Het third and last novel The Catherine Wheel was published in 1952. She died on 26 March 1979 in White Plains, New York, at the age of 63 of a heart attack. In the years before she suffered from alcoholism, depression, and pulmonary disease.