Patchwork
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Patchwork

A Bobbie Ann Mason Reader

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Patchwork

A Bobbie Ann Mason Reader

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About This Book

Bobbie Ann Mason burst onto the American literary scene during a renaissance of short fiction that Raymond Carver called a "literary phenomenon." Anne Tyler hailed Mason as "a full-fledged master of the short story." Mason's work, charged with a spirit of exploration, garnered both popular and critical acclaim.

This reader collects outstanding examples of Mason's award-winning work from throughout her writing 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. George Saunders writes 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 as a writer.

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Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Year
2018
ISBN
9780813175492
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
North American Literary Collections
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Copyright page
  3. Contents
  4. Preface
  5. Introduction
  6. A Note to the Reader about This Reader
  7. I First Stories
  8. Offerings
  9. Shiloh
  10. Third Monday
  11. II War
  12. from In Country (1985)
  13. An Appreciation of Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried
  14. Big Bertha Stories
  15. III Love Lives
  16. Love Life
  17. Coyotes
  18. Bumblebees
  19. IV Beginnings
  20. from The Girl Sleuth (1975)
  21. Reaching the Stars: My Life as a Fifties Groupie
  22. Reading Between the Lines
  23. from Elvis Presley (2003)
  24. V Family History
  25. The Family Farm
  26. The Pond
  27. VI Nancy Culpepper
  28. Nancy Culpepper
  29. The Prelude
  30. VII More Love Lives
  31. Memphis
  32. Midnight Magic
  33. Wish
  34. VIII Whimsy
  35. La Bamba Hot Line
  36. Sheep Down Under
  37. Hot Colors
  38. Sanctuary
  39. All Shook Up
  40. Hear My Song
  41. Terms of Office
  42. IX Fiction and History
  43. from Feather Crowns (1993)
  44. X Literary Meanderings
  45. The Universe of Ada
  46. from Mark Twain’s The American Claimant
  47. XI Atomic Fact and Fiction
  48. Fallout
  49. from An Atomic Romance (2005)
  50. XII Zigzagging
  51. With Jazz
  52. Charger
  53. XIII Another War
  54. from The Girl in the Blue Beret(2011)
  55. The Real Girl in the Blue Beret
  56. XIV Zanies
  57. Whale Love
  58. Talking through Hats
  59. XV Dancing
  60. Quinceañera
  61. The Horsehair Ball Gown
  62. XVI Flash Fiction
  63. Corn-Dog
  64. The Canyon Where the Coyotes Live
  65. Car Wash
  66. Cumberbatch
  67. The Girl in Purple
  68. The State Pen
  69. Falling
  70. XVII The Hot Seat: Interviews
  71. Bomb Magazine Interview
  72. Missouri Review Interview
  73. Transatlantica Interview
  74. 2paragraphs.com Interview
  75. Copyrights and Permissions
  76. About the Author