Jean Stafford

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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Katherine Congreve is still a rare beauty, and her fashionable summer home in the small Maine village of Hawthorne is an enchanting bastion of Boston-haunted elegance--the picturesque relic of a cherished bygone era. To all appearances Congreve House...

• Sep-2005
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These Pulitzer Prize-winning stories represent the major short works of fiction by one of the most distinctively American stylists of her day. Jean Stafford communicates the small details of loneliness and connection, the search for freedom and the d...

• Aug-2010
• / Literary
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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, The Mountain Lion, first published in 1947. Torn between their mother's world of genteel respe...

• Apr-2017
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This book displays at their height the wit, sensibility and psychological penetration that distinguish Miss Stafford's work. There are nine stories and a novella. They range in mood from the title story, a comic portrait of a resourceful child-crimin...

• Apr-2017
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"Probably the best young prose writer in the U.S.," as Time oncecalled her, Jean Stafford made a selection of her favorite among the stories she published in The New Yorker and elsewhere since 1944. Children Are Bored on Sunday displays at its height...

• Apr-2017
• / General Fiction
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The clever but lonely feline hero of this charming tale pursues a friendship that leads to comic confusion. "A lighthearted concoction of extraordinary events, told with affection and humor." The New York Times....

• Nov-2019
• / Literary
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A provocative story of class struggle, privilege, and poverty that put American author Jean Stafford on the map.Growing up in a fishing village north of Boston between the wars, Sonie, the child of immigrants, is so poor that she must “sleep on a p...