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- catalog abstract "The stories in Bobbie Ann Mason's remarkable collection read like poetic transcriptions of day-to-day life. With her keen eye and ear for late twentieth-century popular culture, Mason can render a photograph of a brightly lit supermarket or a bit of wisdom from the Donahue show. Her characters are not people from Hollywood or Cannes, but folks we might run into at a movie theater or an interstate rest area, not just in western Kentucky but all across small-town America. In these bewildered people we see - and relate to - their often desperate quests to mark their places in the world. This special Kentucky edition of a beloved local author's work includes a new foreword by George Ella Lyon, also a Kentucky writer and a friend of the author.".
- catalog contributor b8263346.
- catalog coverage "Kentucky Social life and customs Fiction.".
- catalog coverage "United States Social life and customs 20th century Fiction.".
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "Shiloh -- The Rookers -- Detroit skyline -- Offerings -- Still life with watermelon -- Old things -- Drawing names -- The climber -- Residents and transients -- The retreat -- The ocean -- Graveyard day -- Nancy Culpepper -- Lying doggo -- A new-wave format -- Third Monday.".
- catalog description "The stories in Bobbie Ann Mason's remarkable collection read like poetic transcriptions of day-to-day life. With her keen eye and ear for late twentieth-century popular culture, Mason can render a photograph of a brightly lit supermarket or a bit of wisdom from the Donahue show. Her characters are not people from Hollywood or Cannes, but folks we might run into at a movie theater or an interstate rest area, not just in western Kentucky but all across small-town America. In these bewildered people we see - and relate to - their often desperate quests to mark their places in the world. This special Kentucky edition of a beloved local author's work includes a new foreword by George Ella Lyon, also a Kentucky writer and a friend of the author.".
- catalog extent "xii, 247 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0813119480 (cloth)".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky,".
- catalog spatial "Kentucky Social life and customs Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "Kentucky".
- catalog spatial "United States Social life and customs 20th century Fiction.".
- catalog subject "813/.54 20".
- catalog subject "City and town life Kentucky Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PS3563.A7877 S49 1995".
- catalog tableOfContents "Shiloh -- The Rookers -- Detroit skyline -- Offerings -- Still life with watermelon -- Old things -- Drawing names -- The climber -- Residents and transients -- The retreat -- The ocean -- Graveyard day -- Nancy Culpepper -- Lying doggo -- A new-wave format -- Third Monday.".
- catalog title "Shiloh and other stories / Bobbie Ann Mason ; with a foreword by George Ella Lyon.".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "text".