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Author:

Mason, Bobbie Ann.

Title:

Shiloh and other stories / Bobbie Ann Mason.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Harper & Row,

Copyright Date:

c1982

Description:

247 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Short stories, American--20th century.
Country life--Kentucky--Fiction.
Kentucky--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Contents:

Shiloh -- The Rookers -- Detroit skyline -- Offerings -- Still life with watermelon -- Old things -- Drawing names -- The climber -- Residents and transients -- The retreat -- The ocean -- Graveyard day -- Nancy Culpepper -- Lying Doggo -- A new-wave format -- Third Monday.

Summary:

A collection of stories, mostly about people raised in western Kentucky, that portrays, in carefully observed detail, their struggle to reconcile family traditions and religion with new societal pressures and lifestyles and charts their search for understanding.

ISBN:

9780060150624
0060150629

LCCN:

82047541

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

URAX314 -- Clarke University - Nicholas J. Schrup Library (Dubuque)

N2AX314 -- Divine Word College - Matthew Jacoby Library (Epworth)

ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)

CMPE792 -- Drake Community Library (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

KEPC896 -- Keosauqua Public Library (Keosauqua)

CXPC586 -- Keck Memorial Library (Wapello)