Shiloh and Other Stories (Flamingo S.) - Softcover

Mason, Bobbie Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0006541771 ISBN 13: 9780006541776

Publisher: Flamingo, 1988

Synopsis

" The stories in Bobbie Ann Mason's remarkable collection read like poetic transcriptions of day-to-day life. With her keen eye and ear for late twentieth-century popular culture, Mason can render a photograph of a brightly lit supermarket or a bit of wisdom from the Donahue show. This special edition of a beloved local author's work includes a new foreword by George Ella Lyon, Kentucky writer and friend of the author.

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Review:

"One of those rare writers who, by concentrating their attention on a few square miles of native turf, are able to turn up new and surprisingly wide worlds for the delighted reader." -- "New York Review of Books"

"Her first collection shows not only how good she can be but how consistently good she remains....Not a single page lags... not one among sixteen stories is less than impressive." -- "New York Times Book Review"

"Will keep you fascinated and guessing over the course of the whole book." -- "Rockland (ME) Courier-Gazette"

"One of those rare writers who, by concentrating their attention on a few square miles of native turf, are able to turn up new and surprisingly wide worlds for the delighted reader." -- New York Review of Books

"Her first collection shows not only how good she can be but how consistently good she remains....Not a single page lags... not one among sixteen stories is less than impressive." -- New York Times Book Review

"Will keep you fascinated and guessing over the course of the whole book." -- Rockland (ME) Courier-Gazette

-One of those rare writers who, by concentrating their attention on a few square miles of native turf, are able to turn up new and surprisingly wide worlds for the delighted reader.- -- New York Review of Books

-Her first collection shows not only how good she can be but how consistently good she remains....Not a single page lags... not one among sixteen stories is less than impressive.- -- New York Times Book Review

-Will keep you fascinated and guessing over the course of the whole book.- -- Rockland (ME) Courier-Gazette

From the Back Cover:

The stories in Bobbie Ann Mason's remarkable collection read like poetic transcriptions of day-to-day life. With her keen eye and ear for late twentieth-century popular culture, Mason can render a photograph of a brightly lit supermarket or a bit of wisdom from the Donahue show. Her characters are not people from Hollywood or Cannes, but folks we might run into at a movie theater or an interstate rest area, not just in western Kentucky but all across small-town America. In these bewildered people we see - and relate to - their often desperate quests to mark their places in the world. This special Kentucky edition of a beloved local author's work includes a new foreword by George Ella Lyon, also a Kentucky writer and a friend of the author.

About this edition

• Publisher: Flamingo
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0006541771
• ISBN 13: 9780006541776
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256