Shiloh and Other Stories (Modern Library (Paperback)) - Softcover

Mason, Bobbie Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375758437 ISBN 13: 9780375758430

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group, 2001

Synopsis

"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 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 Back Cover:

"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 16 stories is less than impressive."
--The New York Times Book Review

"Mason is a full-fledged master of the short story... Her first collection is a treasure."
--Anne Tyler

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0375758437
• ISBN 13: 9780375758430
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256