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Nell'anno della storica nevicata di Natale, sulla Quinta Strada i newyorkesi impegnati nelle ultime compere della vigilia assistono a uno spettacolo memorabile: dall'alto di un palazzo un'auto viene calata a terra all'interno di una rete. Ma com'è finita nell'appartamento dei signori Cuckoo? C'è lo zampino di Elephi Pelephi, «Famoso Gatto un Tempo Gattino» dal quoziente intellettivo altissimo e dall'incontenibile b...

Introduced by Hilton Als, in 'one of the best novels about adolescence in American literature' (New York Times) two siblings come of age in a mountainous wilderness ...

In der Titelstory »Das Leben ist kein Abgrund« trifft die junge Lily auf ihre zynische und stolze Cousine Isobel, die lieber ein karges Dasein im Armenhaus fristet, als die Hilfe ihrer Familie in Anspruch zu nehmen. Eine glücklich Verheiratete erfährt im schneebedeckten Maine, was es bedeutet, plötzlich schutzlos und entfremdet ihrem Mann gegenüber zu stehen. Eine Schwerverletzte flieht vor dem Schmerz und sucht Zuflucht in ihrem Inneren. Und ...

A provocative story of class struggle, privilege, and poverty that put American author Jean Stafford on the map.Boston Adventure is the haunting story of a girl in flight from her impoverished childhood. Sonia Marburg, growing up in a village outside Boston, deserted by her father and burdened with an insane mother, dreams that life can hold nothing better than the imagined splendor of Beacon Hill. When she becomes the protégée of a wealthy Bo...

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 assassinsThis 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 ...

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Die achtjährige Molly und Ralph, ihr zehnjähriger Bruder, sind unzertrennlich. Gemeinsam setzen sie sich gegen die nervigen Routinen des Schulalltags zur Wehr, gegen ihre überkorrekte Mutter und die zimperlichen älteren Schwestern. Und vielleicht sogar gegen den Rest der Welt. Eines Sommers werden sie aus ihrem vornehmen Vorort von Los Angeles nach Colorado geschickt, wo ihr Onkel eine Ranch besitzt. Dort lernen die Kinder eine hinreißende neu...

For the first time in a deluxe hardcover edition, three eerily powerful novels by a midcentury master of social satire and psychological portraitureJean Stafford (1915-1979) made a bold entrance onto the American literary scene in 1944 when her first novel, Boston Adventure became a surprise best seller. She followed up this initial success with two more acclaimed novels, The Mountain Lion (1944) and The Catherine Wheel (1952), and became a pr...

Jean Stafford's third and final novel, The Catherine Wheel, is a mordant tour de force concerning the gradual disintegration of a woman under pressures both societal and self-imposed.Katharine Congreve, a Boston society figure, is summering at her country house in Hawthorne, Maine, in the late 1930s, looking after the children of her cousin Maeve, as she does every year. Maeve and her husband, John Shipley, spend their summers in Europe, leavi...

The clever but lonely feline hero of this charming tale pursues a friendship that leads to comic confusion. "A lighthearted concoction of extraordinary events, told with affection and humor." ― The New York Times.

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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. This volume also in...

Eight-year-old Molly and her ten-year-old brother Ralph are inseparable, in league with each other against the stodgy and stupid routines of school and daily life, against their prim mother and prissy older sisters, against the world of authority and perhaps the world itself. One summer they are sent from the genteel Los Angeles suburb that is their home to backcountry Colorado, where their uncle Claude has a ranch. There the children encounte...