Shiloh and Other Stories - Softcover

Mason, Bobbie Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060910682 ISBN 13: 9780060910686

Publisher: Harpercollins Publisher, 1983

Synopsis

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

About this title

From the Publisher:

The famous collection of short stories that launched Bobbie Ann Mason's career, won the PEN/Hemingway Award for Fiction, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the American Book Award, and the PEN/Faulkner Award.

From the Inside Flap:

"These stories will last," said Raymond Carver of Shiloh and Other Stories when it was first published, and almost two decades later this stunning fiction debut and winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award has become a modern American classic. In Shiloh, Bobbie Ann Mason introduces us to her western Kentucky people and the lives they forge for themselves amid the ups and downs of contemporary American life, and she poignantly captures the growing pains of the New South in the lives of her characters as they come to terms with feminism, R-rated movies, and video games.
"Bobbie Ann Mason is one of those rare writers who, by concentrating their attention on a few square miles of native turf, are able to open up new and surprisingly wide worlds for the delighted reader," said Robert Towers in "The New York Review of Books.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins Publisher
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0060910682
• ISBN 13: 9780060910686
• Binding: Paperback