The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

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Overview

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 desire to belong, that not only illuminate whole lives but also convey with an elegant economy of words the sense of the place and time in which her protagonists find themselves. The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford includes the acclaimed story "An Influx of Poets," which has never before appeared in book form.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780374529932
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date: 09/14/2005
Series: FSG Classics Series
Edition description: Revised
Pages: 512
Sales rank: 530,020
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Jean Stafford (1915-79) was the author of three novels, Boston Adventure, The Mountain Lion, The Catherine Wheel, as well as several children's and nonfiction books. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1970.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates
Author's Note

The Innocents Abroad
Maggie Meriwether's Rich Experience
The Children's Game
The Echo and the Nemesis
The Maiden
A Modest Proposal
Caveat Emptor

The Bostonians, and Other Manifestations of the American Scene
Life Is No Abyss
The Hope Chest
Polite Conversation
A Country Love Story
The Bleeding Heart
The Lippia Lawn
The Interior Castle

Cowboys and Indians, and Magic Mountains
The Healthiest Girl in Town
The Tea Time of Stouthearted Ladies
The Mountain Day
The Darkening Moon
Bad Characters
In the Zoo
The Liberation
A Reading Problem
A Summer Day
The Philosophy Lesson

Manhattan Island
Children Are Bored on Sunday
Beatrice Trueblood's Story
Between the Porch and the Altar
I Love Someone
Cops and Robbers
The Captain's Gift
The End of a Career

An Influx of Poets

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