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About 103 pages (30,837 words) in 12 products |
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Bobbie Ann Mason | | Birth Date: |
1 May 1940 |
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 Biography of Bobbie Ann Mason
9143 words, approx. 30.5 pages
 Bobbie Ann Mason grew "so sick of reading about the alienated hero of superior sensibility" who so frequently dominates twentieth-century American literature that she decided to write fiction about the antithesis. Her characters are ordinary, working-cla... summary from source:
 Biography of Bobbie Ann Mason
8314 words, approx. 27.7 pages
Bobbie Ann Mason grew "so sick of reading about the alienated hero of superior sensibility" who so frequently dominates twentieth-century American literature that she decided to write fiction about the antithesis. Her characters are ordinary, working-cla... summary from source:
 Biography of Bobbie Ann Mason
4850 words, approx. 16.2 pages
"'Born to Run' ... that's my whole history, and my whole psychology, and all my subject matter. I grew up 150-200 miles from any city. You simply didn't have much connection with the outside world. So my dreams were always to get out."1 Bobbie Ann Mason...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Shiloh and Other Stories Information
108 words, approx. 1 pages
 Shiloh and Other Stories is a 1982 collection of short stories written by American author Bobbie Ann Mason. The collection won the Ernest Hemingway Foundation award for fiction. The collection brought Mason her first critical acclaim. The short story...
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 The Journal of Southern History The Untold Story of Shiloh: The Battle and the Battlefield
05/01/2007: 469 words, approx. 2 pages The Untold Story of Shiloh: The Battle and the Battlefield. By Timothy B. Smith. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. Pp. xxii, 206. $34.00, ISBN 1-57233-466-5.) The Untold Story of Shiloh: The Battle and the Battlefield is a collection of Timothy B. Smith's... summary from source:
Journal of Southern History The Untold Story of Shiloh: The Battle and the Battlefield.(Book review)
05/01/2007: 465 words, approx. 2 pages The Untold Story of Shiloh: The Battle and the Battlefield. By Timothy B. Smith. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. Pp. xxii, 206. $34.00, ISBN 1-57233-466-5.) The Untold Story of Shiloh: The Battle and the Battlefield is a collection of Timothy B....
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Anne Tyler
759 words, approx. 3 pages
[To say that Mason] is a "new" writer is to give entirely the wrong impression, for there is nothing unformed or merely promising about her. She is a full-fledged master of the short story, and Shiloh and Other Stories, her first collection, is a treasure. Her characters are backwoods Kentuckians, for the most part, and they're so vividly and lovingly portrayed that we feel we know everything about them. We know their food: the potato and mushroom-soup casseroles, uncooked fruitcake mad... summary from source:
Critical Essay by David Quammen
555 words, approx. 2 pages
For several years short stories by Bobbie Ann Mason have been turning up—rather improbably, it seemed—in The New Yorker and The Atlantic. The improbability lay in the fact that Miss Mason writes almost exclusively about working-class and farm people coping with their muted frustrations in western Kentucky (south of Paducah, not far from Kentucky Lake, if that helps you), and the gap to be bridged empathically between her readership and her characters was therefore formidable. But formidable al... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Francis King
540 words, approx. 2 pages
Each story [in Shiloh] … is a recreation of life, in all its quaint, baffling, funny, pathetic inconsequentiality, in one small, obscure corner of the world. Few of her English readers will ever have visited the towns that she describes, few are likely to do so. But it is probable that they will retain the impression that they have made a visit, in some other existence or in a dream, so intense is her evocation…. One of Miss Mason's constant themes is the manner in which, with no decisi...
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