Mason, Bobbie Ann
Mason, Bobbie Ann( 1940– ),short story writer, novelist. On publication of Shiloh and Other Stories in 1982, Mason was greeted as a major talent—a perfect voice for the rural shopping-mall frequenters and strivers after a meaningful and fully materialist life. Mason was born and raised near Mayfield, Ky., a region most of her characters are drawn from. At the University of Connecticut, she wrote a dissertation on Nabokov's novel Ada, later published as Nabokov's Garden (1974), followed by The Girl Sleuth: A Feminist Guide to the Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew and Their Sisters (1975). But she was, she says, “haunted by the people I went to high school with” and found her true voice writing about them. Later novels were In Country (1985), about a young woman whose father died in Vietnam, and Spence+Lila (1988), which examines love strained by a woman's trials with breast cancer. Feather Crowns...
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