The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford
By Jean Stafford
Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates
Read by Elisabeth Rodgers
Unabridged
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3 Formats: CD
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3 Formats: Library CD
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3 Formats: MP3 CD
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ISBN: 9781094100555
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ISBN: 9781094100548
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ISBN: 9781094100562
| Runtime: | 19.72 Hours |
| Category: | Fiction/Short Stories |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
Winner of the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Winner of the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, this collection of thirty stories includes some of Jean Stafford’s best short fiction from the period 1944 to 1968. Including such favorites as “In the Zoo,” “Children Are Bored on Sunday,” and “Beatrice Trueblood’s Story,” the collection offers the work of this popular writer of the 1940s and 1950s to a new generation of readers and critics.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
Author
Author Bio: Jean Stafford
Jean Stafford (1915–1979) was the author of three novels and the acclaimed short fiction collection, The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford, which won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She grew up in California and Colorado. After earning both a BA and an MA degree in four years from the University of Colorado, she studied philology in Heidelberg for a year, then moved to New England and began to write. In 1944 she published her first book, Boston Adventure, a bestselling novel of manners, and her second and most highly acclaimed novel, The Mountain Lion, followed in 1947. By 1948, the year in which she received a Guggenheim Fellowship, her work regularly appeared in the New Yorker.
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Details
Details
| Available Formats : | CD, Library CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Fiction/Short Stories |
| Runtime: | 19.72 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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