" 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.

Shiloh

Literature & Fiction

MASON, BOBBIE ANN.

Short Stories & Anthologies

HarperCollins, Publishers

Shiloh and Other Stories

Contemporary

Harper Row Publishers

Sixteen stories centering on small-town existence and how peoples' lives are shaped by love explore the ways in which need and loneliness color individuals' longings for affection

Love Life

United States

Harper&Row

In turn-of-the-century Kentucky, Christianna and James Wheeler have the first recorded North American quintuplets, leading to an early version of the media circus. By the author of In Country. 75,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Feather Crowns

HARPER/COLLINS

Vietnam's moral fallout is revealed to "Sam" Hughes, an eighteen-year-old Kentucky girl whose father was killed in the war and whose Uncle Emmett may be suffering from Agent Orange

In Country: A Novel

Genre Fiction

Perennial

Bobbie Ann Mason’s debut novel—"a brilliant and moving book... a moral tale that entwines public history with private anguish." —Los Angeles Times Book Review “How Ms. Mason conjures a vivid image of the futility of war and its searing legacy of confusion out of the searching questions or a naïve later generation is nothing short of masterful.” —Kansas City Star “[Mason] is a writer of power and sympathy, insight and great love for her characters.” —NPR Samantha “Sam” Hughes is in her senior year of high school in rural Kentucky. Her father, whom she never knew, was killed in Vietnam before she was born. Sam lives with her uncle Emmett, a veteran who appears to be suffering from exposure to Agent Orange. Amidst worrying about her uncle and yearning to figure out who she is and learn about the father she never knew, Sam develops feelings for Tom, one of Emmett's veteran buddies. Tom and Emmett attempt to shield Sam from the truth of what they endured, but she has become convinced that her life is bound to the war in Vietnam. In Country is both a powerful and touching novel of America’s ghosts and a beautiful portrayal of a family, not unlike many others, left bruised and twisted by the war. At the time of its publication in 1985, Richard Eder’s rave LA Times review concluded: “One of the questions for post-war American literature, dealt with variously by Updike, Cheever, Roth, Salinger and a host of others, is whether the larger capacities of the human spirit can be exercised, so to speak, in a motel room equipped with color TV and a drinks refrigerator. The answers vary; Mason has found her own striking variety of ‘yes.’”

In Country: a novel

Reference

Harper-perennial

Shiloh: And Other Stories

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

Harpercollins Publisher

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

Harpercollins

In Country

In the summer of 1984, the war in Vietnam comes home to Sam Hughes, whose father was killed there before she was born: 
 The soldier-boy in the picture never changed. In a way that made him dependable. But he seemed so innocent. 
 "Astronauts have been to the moon," she blurted out to the picture. "You missed Watergate. I was in the second grade." 
 She stared at the picture, squinting her eyes, as if she expected it to come to life. But Dwayne had died with his secrets. Emmett was walking around with his. Anyone who survived Vietnam seemed to regard it as something personal and embarrassing. Granddad had said they were embarrassed that they lost the war, but Emmett said they were embarrassed that they were still alive. "I guess you're not embarrassed," she said to the picture.

Literary

A farm couple married forty-six years look back on their long relationship during Lila's extended hospitalization

Spence and Lila: A Novel

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Shiloh

Shiloh and Other Stories

Love Life

Feather Crowns

In Country: A Novel

In Country: a novel

Shiloh and Other Stories

Shiloh and Other Stories

In Country

Spence and Lila: A Novel