Jean Stafford: Complete Stories & Other Writings (LOA #342)
The Collected Stories / Uncollected Stories / A Mother in History / Essays
- Hardcover
790 pages
- Release Date
19 October 2021
Summary
For the first time, the complete stories of a Pulitzer Prize-winning master of the form, plus her fascinating portrait of the mother one of the world’s most infamous assassins.
This volume collects for the first time the complete stories of a Pulitzer Prize-winning master of the form, a writer acclaimed for her acute psychological insight, exacting eye for detail, and mordant sensibility. Set in New England, Colorado, New York, and Europe, Jean Stafford’s stories intimately examine th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781598536829 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1598536826 |
| Author: | Jean Stafford, Kathryn Davis |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 790 |
| Release Date: | 19 October 2021 |
| Weight: | 590g |
| Dimensions: | 206mm x 129mm x 28mm |
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Critics Review
“Jean Stafford’s stories and journalism often crackled with wit–and smoldered with rage.” –The Wall Street Journal
“Jean Stafford’s stories and journalism often crackled with wit—and smoldered with rage.” —The Wall Street Journal
About The Author
Jean Stafford
Jean Stafford (1915-1979) grew up in southern California and Colorado. After graduating from the University of Colorado in 1936, she studied in Heidelberg for a year, then moved to the Northeast and began to write. Stafford would publish three novels, Boston Adventure (1944), The Mountain Lion (1947), The Catherine Wheel (1952), more than forty short stories (The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1970), and A Mother in History (1966), a journalistic portrait of Marguerite Oswald, mother of Lee Harvey Oswald.
Kathryn Davis is the Hurst Writer in Residence at Washington University and the author of eight novels, including Labrador, The Walking Tour, Duplex, and The Silk Road. She has received the Katherine Anne Porter Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction.
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