The Mountain Lion Author:Jean Stafford Jean Stafford (1915-79) was one of America's greatest writers of short fiction and this spellbinding novel burns with a light as clear and dazzling as the American West- haunting and unforgettable. Here, on a Colorado ranch, two children from suburban California, Molly and Ralph, come face to face with an alien world- of open spaces, rearing ho... more »rces and high, silent glaciers- while Molly's obsessive love drives them relentlessly towards tragedy in the high sierras, the haunt of the mountain lion.« less