The Mountain Lion (Faber Editions) [electronic resource]
Jean Stafford2023
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'One of the strangest and angriest novels of the twentieth century.' Lauren
Groff 'An extraordinary, savage novel.' Olivia Laing 'I love this novel.'
Patricia Lockwood She would not feel safe until the beautiful animal was dead.
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.,Their time in this savage,
untamed wilderness - hunting, roaming, writing - soon becomes tainted by the
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 . . . 'Beautiful, and sensitive, and quickening.' Eileen Myles
'A glimmer of genius.' Rumaan Alam 'Breathtakingly original.' Tessa Hadley 'A
brilliant achievement [to] set beside Carson McCullers's masterwo...
Main title:
The Mountain Lion (Faber Editions) [electronic resource] / Jean Stafford
Author:
Jean Stafford, Author
Imprint:
United Kingdom : Faber & Faber, 2023
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (316676.0)
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780571368181
Language:
English
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BRN:
437947
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