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- catalog abstract "In this memoir, the author of In Country and other award-winning books tells her own story, and the story of a Kentucky farm family, the Masons of Clear Springs. Clear Springs takes us back in time to recapture a way of life that has all but disappeared, a country culture deeply rooted in work and food and family, in common sense and music and the land. A multilayered narrative of three generations - Bobbie Ann Mason, her parents and grandparents - Clear Springs gracefully interlaces several different lives, decades, and locales, moving from the industrious life on a Kentucky farm to travels around the South with Mason as president of the Hilltoppers Fan Club; from the hippie lifestyle of the 1960s New York counterculture to the shock-therapy ward of a mental institution; from a farmhouse to the set of a Hollywood movie; from pop music concerts to a small rustic schoolhouse. Clear Springs depicts the changes that have come to family, to women, and to heartland America in the twentieth century, as well as to Bobbie Ann Mason herself. When the movie of Mason's bestselling novel In Country is filmed near Clear Springs, it brings the first limousines to town, even as it brings out once again the wisdom and values of Mason's remarkable parents. Her mother, especially, stands at the center of this book. Mason's journey leads her to a recognition of the drama and significance of her mother's life and to a new understanding of heritage, place, and family roots.".
- catalog contributor b11149178.
- catalog coverage "Kentucky Social life and customs.".
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description "In this memoir, the author of In Country and other award-winning books tells her own story, and the story of a Kentucky farm family, the Masons of Clear Springs. Clear Springs takes us back in time to recapture a way of life that has all but disappeared, a country culture deeply rooted in work and food and family, in common sense and music and the land. A multilayered narrative of three generations - Bobbie Ann Mason, her parents and grandparents - Clear Springs gracefully interlaces several different lives, decades, and locales, moving from the industrious life on a Kentucky farm to travels around the South with Mason as president of the Hilltoppers Fan Club; from the hippie lifestyle of the 1960s New York counterculture to the shock-therapy ward of a mental institution; from a farmhouse to the set of a Hollywood movie; from pop music concerts to a small rustic schoolhouse. Clear Springs depicts the changes that have come to family, to women, and to heartland America in the twentieth century, as well as to Bobbie Ann Mason herself. When the movie of Mason's bestselling novel In Country is filmed near Clear Springs, it brings the first limousines to town, even as it brings out once again the wisdom and values of Mason's remarkable parents. Her mother, especially, stands at the center of this book. Mason's journey leads her to a recognition of the drama and significance of her mother's life and to a new understanding of heritage, place, and family roots.".
- catalog description "Map of Clear Springs, 1880 -- The Mason-Lee Family Tree -- The Family Farm, 1994 -- Country People -- Clearing Out -- Clearing -- The Pond.".
- catalog extent "xi, 298 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Clear Springs.".
- catalog identifier "0679449256 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Clear Springs.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Random House,".
- catalog relation "Clear Springs.".
- catalog spatial "Kentucky Social life and customs.".
- catalog spatial "Kentucky.".
- catalog subject "813/.54 B 21".
- catalog subject "Families Kentucky.".
- catalog subject "Farm life Kentucky.".
- catalog subject "Mason, Bobbie Ann Childhood and youth.".
- catalog subject "Mason, Bobbie Ann Family.".
- catalog subject "Novelists, American 20th century Family relationships.".
- catalog subject "PS3563.A7877 Z77 1999".
- catalog subject "Women novelists, American 20th century Family relationships.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Map of Clear Springs, 1880 -- The Mason-Lee Family Tree -- The Family Farm, 1994 -- Country People -- Clearing Out -- Clearing -- The Pond.".
- catalog title "Clear Springs : a memoir / Bobbie Ann Mason.".
- catalog type "text".