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Bobbie Ann Mason

Biography

Bobbie Ann Mason

Bobbie Ann Mason is the author of a number of works of fiction, including THE GIRL IN THE BLUE BERET, IN COUNTRY, AN ATOMIC ROMANCE and NANCY CULPEPPER. The groundbreaking SHILOH AND OTHER STORIES won the PEN Hemingway Award and was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the American Book Award and the PEN Faulkner Award. Her memoir, CLEAR SPRINGS, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has won two Southern Book Awards and numerous other prizes, including the O. Henry and the Pushcart. Former writer-in-residence at the University of Kentucky, she lives in Kentucky.

Bobbie Ann Mason

Books by Bobbie Ann Mason

by Bobbie Ann Mason - Fiction, Women's Fiction

Ann Workman is a misfit who has traveled from rural Kentucky to graduate school in the transformative years of the late 1960s. Although he comes from a very different place, upper-middle class suburban Chicago, Jimmy is also a misfit, a rebel who rejects his upbringing and questions everything. Ann and Jimmy bond through music and literature and their own quirkiness, diving headfirst into what seems to be a perfect relationship. But with the Vietnam War looming and the country in turmoil, their future is uncertain. Many years later, Ann recalls this time of innocence --- and her own obsession with Jimmy --- as she faces another life crisis. Seeking escape from her problems, she tries to imagine where she might be if she had chosen differently all those years ago.