Patchwork A Bobbie Ann Mason Reader |
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Author:
| Mason, Bobbie Ann |
Introduction by:
| Saunders, George |
ISBN: | 978-0-8131-7550-8 |
Publication Date: | Jun 2018 |
Publisher: | University Press of Kentucky
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $2.99 |
Book Description:
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A treasury of both fiction and nonfiction by the award-winning author, including new material: "What a treat . . . She's one of our very best writers." --Ann Beattie, author of A Wonderful Stroke of LuckThe author of such classics as
Shiloh and the memoir
Clear Springs, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, Kentucky-born Bobbie Ann Mason has been hailed as "a full-fledged master of the short story" by Anne Tyler and "an American original" by Jayne...
More Description A treasury of both fiction and nonfiction by the award-winning author, including new material: "What a treat . . . She's one of our very best writers." --Ann Beattie, author of A Wonderful Stroke of LuckThe author of such classics as Shiloh and the memoir Clear Springs, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, Kentucky-born Bobbie Ann Mason has been hailed as "a full-fledged master of the short story" by Anne Tyler and "an American original" by Jayne Anne Phillips. This reader collects outstanding examples of Mason's award-winning work from throughout her career and provides a unique look at the development of one of the country's finest writers.Patchwork contains short stories first published in the New Yorker and other leading periodicals; chapters from Mason's acclaimed novels, including In Country, An Atomic Romance, and The Girl in the Blue Beret; and riveting excerpts from Mason's eclectic nonfiction. Some examples of Mason's recent explorations in flash fiction appear here in print for the first time.Mason's writing glows with a nuanced understanding of the struggles and pathos of American life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. As George Saunders says in his introduction, "Bobbie Ann Mason is a strange and beautiful writer. . . . Her stories exist to gently touch on, and praise, even mourn, what it feels like to be alive in this moment." Patchwork conveys Mason's extraordinary talent and range.