The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford

The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford
Title The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford PDF eBook
Author Jean Stafford
Publisher University of Texas Press
Pages 484
Release 1992-01-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780292711457

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The appearance of these stories in one volume is an event in our literature. To have built up so distinguished a collection, each story excellent in its own way and each an original departure in relation to the others, is a triumph. --Guy Davenport, New York Times Book Review Miss Stafford's craftsmanship and her mastery of the short story form are by now so well known that it seems superfluous to praise these stories. That they are impeccably done is obvious. --Joyce Carol Oates, Book World She writes about people whom loneliness has driven slightly mad, but also about people who are secure and comforted; she explores childhood and old age, poverty and wealth, tragedy and comedy. The comedy is usually wry... but often moves one to laughter. Above all, Miss Stafford will not be hurried... To me, this book is most solidly achieved. --John Wain, New York Review Of Books Winner of the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, this collection of thirty stories includes some of Jean Stafford's best short fiction from the period 1944-1968. Including such favorites as In the Zoo, Children Are Bored on Sunday, and Beatrice Trueblood's Story, the collection offers the work of this popular writer of the 1940s and 1950s to a new generation of readers and critics.

The Mountain Lion

The Mountain Lion
Title The Mountain Lion PDF eBook
Author Jean Stafford
Publisher University of Texas Press
Pages 252
Release 1992-01-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780292751361

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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.

The Mountain Lion

The Mountain Lion
Title The Mountain Lion PDF eBook
Author Jean Stafford
Publisher
Pages 250
Release 1948
Genre Children
ISBN

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A Mother in History

A Mother in History
Title A Mother in History PDF eBook
Author Jean Stafford
Publisher Library of America
Pages 93
Release 2021-05-04
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1598536958

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Jean Stafford's unforgettable portrait of Marguerite Oswald, the mother of Lee Harvey Oswald. Curious about “the influences and accidents and loves and antipathies and idiosyncrasies” that shaped Lee Harvey Oswald, the novelist and short story writer Jean Stafford spent nine hours interviewing Marguerite Oswald in May 1965. A Mother in History (1966) is the acerbic result, an indelible portrait of a woman hungry for money, fame, and attention, full of righteous self-pity, and relentless in professing her son’s blamelessness: “Killing does not necessarily mean badness. You find killing in some very fine homes for one reason or another.” Stafford’s controversial profile elicited mixed reviews—Newsweek praised it as a “masterpiece of character study,” while Time called it “the most abrasively unpleasant book in recent years”—and angry readers accused her of seeking to “enthrone a wicked woman” and “demolish the sacred throne of motherhood.” It captures a moment in history when the trauma of Dallas was still raw, Lee Harvey Oswald’s guilt was widely accepted, and Marguerite Oswald, with her obsessive “research” into hidden “truths” and the machinations of an omnipresent “they,” appeared to be a singular prisoner of maternal delusion, and not a harbinger of the decades to come.

Elephi

Elephi
Title Elephi PDF eBook
Author Jean Stafford
Publisher Courier Dover Publications
Pages 84
Release 2017-04-19
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 0486814262

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Elephi Pelephi, a well-known, intelligent, but lonely cat, smuggles a small foreign car into his Fifth Avenue apartment hoping for friendship and stimulating conversation.

Jean Stafford

Jean Stafford
Title Jean Stafford PDF eBook
Author David Roberts
Publisher Vintage
Pages 494
Release 1988
Genre Authors, American
ISBN 9780701130107

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Children are Bored on Sunday

Children are Bored on Sunday
Title Children are Bored on Sunday PDF eBook
Author Jean Stafford
Publisher
Pages 260
Release 1954
Genre
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