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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.… (mais)
489. Boston Adventure, by Jean Stafford (read 15 Jan 1956) On Jan 9, 1956, I said: "Tonight I began reading an early work by Jean Stafford, Boston Adventure. I think it is her first . I have never read a book by her before." On Jan 11 I said: "Reading in Boston Adventure. Ivan died and was buried a pauper. Sonia was taken by Miss Pride to Boston for a visit. Dr. Galbraith is trying to make Sonia's mother. It is a weird book, but I am not enthralled by it." On Jan 15 I said: "Finished Jean Stafford's Boston Adventure. Sonia did not go insane, as I had thought would be a nice ending, but she went back to Miss Pride, apparently to be with her till she--Miss Pride--died. Hopestill was killed as a result of falling from a horse while pregnant. This, after Hopestill had married Dr. Philip McAllister, apparently while pregnant by Harry Morgan. Nathan Kadish went off to Paris, leaving his Japanese girl friend behind because she was unfaithful to him. Sonia's mother was in an insane asylum, so bad Sonia could not see her. All in all, the book had its good points, but I was bored at times, and seldom very interested in the carefully painted picture of Boston society. After all, such means nothing to me. There is nothing about Boston which intrigues me: it is a world I have never known. (I did copy out several excerpts (from pages 357 and 493) of language which impressed me.) ( )
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Because we were very poor and could not buy another bed, I used to sleep on a pallet made of old coats and comforters in the same room with my mother and father. When I played wishing games or said "Star light , star bright," my first wish always was that I might have a room of my own, and the one I imagined was Miss Pride's at the Hotel Barstow which I sometimes had to clean when my mother, the chambermaid, was not feeling well.
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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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