The Collected Stories of Jean Staffor..., Jean Stafford
The Collected Stories of Jean Staffor..., Jean Stafford
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The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford

Author: Jean Stafford, Joyce Carol Oates

Narrator: Elisabeth Rodgers

Unabridged: 19 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/25/2020

Synopsis

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.

About Jean Stafford

Jean Stafford (1915–1979) was the author of three novels, as well as several children’s and nonfiction books.

About Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the 2019 Jerusalem Prize, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.

About Elisabeth Rodgers

Elisabeth Rodgers is an actress and AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator. After graduating from Princeton University, she completed a two-year program at William Esper Studio, where she studied with Maggie Flanigan. Her audiobook narration training came from Robin Miles, who has also directed her in several productions. She has recorded dozens of books for a multitude of publishers.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael on February 01, 2021

The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford won the 1970 Pulitzer and having finished it, I have completed the last 50 years of Pulitzers (1970-2020). I felt that this collection was a bit uneven. There are actually four collections inside: stories about ex-pats (The Innocents Abroad), Bostonian stories......more

Goodreads review by Kelly_Hunsaker_reads on May 23, 2020

These stories are quintessentially American. Each character is real and identifiable. And although Stafford's vocabulary is immense and her prose is lyrical the people were nonetheless accessible and likable. I knew nothing of Stafford before deciding to read all of the Pulitzer winners, and althoug......more

Goodreads review by Chris on April 20, 2021

It's on its way courtesy of Amazon. Will start soon. ... And off we go last night with the intro by Joyce Carol Oates. Seems that Ms Stafford(born in Boulder & a fellow C.U. alum). Had a difficult life, which included multiple marriages, in particular an abusive one with Robert Lowell. A car wreck w......more

Quotes

“Impeccably done.” Joyce Carol Oates, New York Times bestseller

“To have built up so distinguished a collection, each story excellent in its own way and each an original departure in relation to the others, is a triumph. ” New York Times

“She writes about people whom loneliness has driven slightly mad, but also about people who are secure and comforted; she explores childhood and old age, poverty and wealth, tragedy and comedy…Above all, Miss Stafford will not be hurried…This book is most solidly achieved.” New York Review of Books

Awards

  • Pulitzer Prize
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