Feather Crowns (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Bobbie Ann Mason
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1900, 1937, 1963
- Setting: Western Kentucky
- Principal Characters: Christianna “Christie” Wheeler, James Wheeler, Wad Wheeler, Amanda Wheeler, Alma Wheeler, Mittens Dowdy, Greenberry McCain
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, South or Southerners, Poverty or poor people, Farms, farmers, or farming, Small-town life, Fame, Literacy, Birthparents
- Locales: Kentucky
Bobbie Ann Mason’s first collection of short stories, Shiloh and Other Stories (1982), made critically famous what has been called Kmart realism and received good reviews, and her novella In Country (1985), about the personal aftermath of the Vietnam War, was made into a topically interesting film. Short fiction has always seemed ideal for Mason, given her perceptive eye for the symbolically telling detail and her carefully controlled language. What she has done with her first long work, Feather Crowns, is to write what might be called a textbook example of the...
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