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Boston Adventure

Boston Adventure

Stafford, Jean
Alam, Rumaan

Paperback

General Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 1681375370
ISBN13: 9781681375373
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Jun 29 2021
Pages: 512
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
A provocative story of class struggle, privilege, and poverty that put American author Jean Stafford on the map.

Growing up in a fishing village north of Boston between the wars, Sonie, the child of immigrants, is so poor that she must sleep on a pallet made of old coats and comforters. She can only dream of the feather beds and perfumed soap to be found in the great city across the bay. In the summers, while helping her mother clean rooms in a shoreside hotel, she keeps company with the austere and fascinating Miss Pride. Years pass, and Sonie--now the caretaker of her fragile mother--receives an invitation from Miss Pride to move to Beacon Hill and be her personal secretary. Salvation, she thinks, is at hand. In Boston, Sonie does come to know a new and broader world, one in which she mingles with both blue bloods and louche European refugees, and yet her troubles, she discovers, are hardly over.

Boston Adventure was published when Jean Stafford was twenty-nine, and it was an immediate best seller. Combining Dickensian color and Proustian insight in its depiction of an isolated but determined young woman, it looks forward to Stafford's celebrated novel The Mountain Lion as well as to the short stories for which she would be awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1970.

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