The Mountain Lion

The Mountain Lion

Title: The Mountain Lion
Author: Jean Stafford
Release: 2017-04-04
Kind: ebook
Genre: Literary Fiction, Books, Fiction & Literature
Size: 717238
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 respectability and their grandfather's and uncle's world of cowboy masculinity, neither Molly nor Ralph can find an acceptable adult role to aspire to. As events move to their swift and inevitable conclusion, Stafford uncovers and indicts the social forces that require boys to sacrifice the feminine in order to become men and doom intelligent girls who aren't pretty.

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