Shiloh and other stories
By: Bobbie Ann Mason ; with a foreword by George Ella Lyon.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Lexington, Ky
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Kentucky -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Description: The stories in Bobbie Ann Mason's remarkable collection read like poetic transcriptions of day-to-day life. With her keen eye and ear for late twentieth-century popular culture, Mason can render a photograph of a brightly lit supermarket or a bit of wisdom from the Donahue show. Her characters are not people from Hollywood or Cannes, but folks we might run into at a movie theater or an interstate rest area, not just in western Kentucky but all across small-town America.

In these bewildered people we see - and relate to - their often desperate quests to mark their places in the world. This special Kentucky edition of a beloved local author's work includes a new foreword by George Ella Lyon, also a Kentucky writer and a friend of the author.