Shiloh and Other Stories - Softcover

Mason, Bobbie Ann

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ISBN 10: 0060913304 ISBN 13: 9780060913304

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1993

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A collection of stories, mostly about people raised in western Kentucky, that portrays, in carefully observed detail, their struggle to reconcile family traditions and religion with new societal pressures and lifestyles and charts their search for understanding

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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"

"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.

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