Mark your calendars to join the Lost & Found Book Club on Zoom on April 29th at 6:30pm to discuss Jean Stafford's beautiful, ironic coming-age-novel "The Mountain Lion" (1947). Register on the calendar at https://emmetoneal.libnet.info/event/4846232 to receive a link to the meeting. (This meeting was to have occurred in March but, due to inclement weather, was bumped to April.)
Reserve your copy of the novel here.
The eaudiobook of this novel is available to qualifying users via the Hoopla app. Hoopla titles are instantly available for residents of the cities of Birmingham, Gardendale, Homewood, Hoover, Irondale, Leeds, Mountain Brook, Pinson, Pleasant Grove, Trussville, Vestavia Hills, and Warrior only.
In the novel, 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 encounter an
enchanting new world—savage, direct, beautiful, untamed—to which, over the
next few years, they will return regularly, enjoying a delicious double
life. And yet at the same time this other sphere, about which they
are both so passionate, threatens to come between their singular
attachment to each other. Molly dreams of growing up to be a writer, yet
clings ever more fiercely to the special world of childhood. Ralph for his
part feels the growing challenge, and appeal, of impending manhood.
Youth and innocence are hurtling toward a devastating end.
Stafford, who published well over one hundred stories in the New Yorker, is not as well known for her novels but she is a master of both the short and long forms. Her collected stories won the Pulitzer in 1970.
Register on the calendar at https://emmetoneal.libnet.info/event/4846232 to receive a link to the meeting. Feel free to enjoy an adult beverage during our discussion!
Save the date for upcoming Lost & Found 20th Century Classics:
The Tenant by Roland Topor on Thursday, May 27th, program registration / reserve a copy
Cane by Jean Toomer on Thursday, June 24th, program registration / reserve a copy
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