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| Edition: | University of Texas Press (Paperback) |
| Author: | Jean Stafford |
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| Pages: | 232 |
| ISBN 10: | 0292751362 |
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Description
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. 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.
Plot
The Mountain Lion is Jean Stafford’s second novel which is about the relationship between a brother and a sister -- Ralph and Molly Fawcett. Ralph and Molly are intelligent, bookish, self-conscious, and sensitive and were raised by their overly refined mother.
Molly and Ralph prefer to stay with their step-grandfather Mr. Kenyon. After Mr. Kenyon died, they stayed with their uncle Claude for which their mother is secretly grateful. The children were allowed by their mother to spend summers at Uncle Claude's ranch in Colorado which they love so much without knowing that it will soon destroy them both.
