num_pages: 256
description: "These stories will last," said Raymond Carver of Shiloh and Other Stories when it was first published, and almost two decades later this stunning fiction debut and winner of the PENHemingway Award has become a modern American classic. In Shiloh, Bobbie Ann Mason introduces us to her western Kentucky people and the lives they forge for themselves amid the ups and downs of contemporary American life, and she poignantly captures the growing pains of the New South in the lives of her characters as they come to terms with feminism, R-rated movies, and video games."Bobbie Ann Mason is one of those rare writers who, by concentrating their attention on a few square miles of native turf, are able to open up new and surprisingly wide worlds for the delighted reader," said Robert Towers in The New York Review of Books.
language: English
title: Shiloh
titlecomplete: Shiloh
genres: Fiction, American, Short Stories, School, Literature, Contemporary, Short Story Collection, 20th Century, Southern, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 1344
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, awardedAt: 378720000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 410256000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction (Hardcover), awardedAt: 410256000000
name: PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel
publisher: Flamingo