by George Ella Lyon (Foreword), Bobbie Ann Mason (Author)
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.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 262
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Published: 26 Oct 1995
ISBN 10: 0813119480
ISBN 13: 9780813119489
One of those rare writers who, by concentrating their attention on a few square miles of native turf, are able to turn up new and surprisingly wide worlds for the delighted reader. -- New York Review of Books
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 sixteen stories is less than impressive. -- New York Times Book Review
Will keep you fascinated and guessing over the course of the whole book. -- Rockland (ME) Courier-Gazette