Why Did I Ever (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Mary Robison
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The late 1990’s
- Setting: Hollywood and a small southern town
- Principal Characters: Money Breton, Mev, Paulie, Hollis, The Deaf Lady, Dix Didier
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Mothers, Parents and children, Twentieth century, California, West, U.S., Disabilities or physically challenged persons, Hollywood, 1990’s, Learning disabilities
- Locales: South (U.S.), Hollywood, CA
Mary Robison is credited—along with Bobbie Ann Mason, Raymond Carver, Ann Beattie, and others—for reviving the short story as a serious literary form in the 1980’s. Her best-known collection, An Amateur’s Guide to the Night (1983), which contains several of her most anthologized stories, such as “Coach,” “The Dictionary in the Laundry Chute,” and “Yours,” made her an influential force in the so-called, but misnamed, minimalist literary movement.
Robison is also the author of two novels, oh! (1981) and Subtraction (1991), the latter...
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