Jean Stafford

Boston Adventure

A Library of America eBook Classic

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Twenty-nine-year-old Jean Stafford made a bold entrance onto the American literary scene in 1944 when her first novel Boston Adventure became a surprise best seller, its style inviting comparisons to James and Proust. Sonia Marburg, the protagonist of Boston Adventure, grows up in the North Shore village of Chichester, the daughter of an angry marriage between immigrant parents who remain outsiders in America. Seeking to escape the material and spiritual impoverishment of her childhood, Sonia looks across the bay at the State House dome in Boston for the promise of a richer life. Her dreams seem to find fulfillment when she finds a position a… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Davis, Kathryn (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-59853-648-5
EAN: 9781598536485
Produktnummer: 31803102
Verlag: Library of America
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 493 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'089 KB

Über den Autor

Kathryn Davis, editor, 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 LannanLiterary Award for Fiction.