Patchwork: A Bobbie Ann Mason Reader (Hardcover)

Patchwork: A Bobbie Ann Mason Reader By Bobbie Ann Mason, George Saunders (Introduction by), Jonathan Allison (Preface by) Cover Image

Patchwork: A Bobbie Ann Mason Reader (Hardcover)

By Bobbie Ann Mason, George Saunders (Introduction by), Jonathan Allison (Preface by)

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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.


Product Details ISBN: 9780813175454
ISBN-10: 0813175453
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Publication Date: June 29th, 2018
Pages: 512
Language: English