Shiloh and Other Stories

Shiloh and Other Stories

Bobbie Ann Mason

#629 of 8,085 books · #358 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction (1983), the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (1983), and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (1982).

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.