Boston Adventure (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Jean Stafford
- First Published: 1944
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, United States or Americans, Class conflict, Twentieth century, Poverty or poor people, Immigration or emigration, Boston, Identity
- Locales: Boston, MA
Boston Adventure, Stafford's first novel, was also her most popular work. Although critics do not consider it her best novel, they do point out how effectively Stafford presents the inner life of the protagonist, much in the manner of the nineteenth century novelists Henry James and Marcel Proust.
The story is divided into two parts, each of which has been given the title of a place. Book 1 is called “Hotel Barstow,” after the summer place on the North Shore across from Boston, where Sonia Marburg, the poverty-stricken protagonist, sees the wealthy Bostonians whose...
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