Bobbie Ann Mason burst onto the American literary scene during a renaissance of short fiction that Raymond Carver called a "literary phenomenon." Anne Tyler hailed Mason as "a full-fledged master of the short story." Mason's work, charged with a spirit of exploration, garnered both popular and critical acclaim.
This reader collects outstanding examples of Mason's award-winning work from throughout her writing career and provides a unique look at the development of one of the country's finest writers. Patchwork contains short stories first published in the New Yorker and other leading periodicals; chapters from Mason's acclaimed novels, including In Country, An Atomic Romance, and The Girl in the Blue Beret; and riveting excerpts from Mason's eclectic nonfiction. Some examples of Mason's recent explorations in flash fiction appear here in print for the first time.
Mason's writing glows with a nuanced understanding of the struggles and pathos of American life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. George Saunders writes in his introduction, "Bobbie Ann Mason is a strange and beautiful writer. . . . Her stories exist to gently touch on, and praise, even mourn, what it feels like to be alive in this moment." Patchwork conveys Mason's extraordinary talent and range as a writer.
- 513 pages
- English
- PDF
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Table of contents
- Front cover
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- A Note to the Reader about This Reader
- I First Stories
- Offerings
- Shiloh
- Third Monday
- II War
- from In Country (1985)
- An Appreciation of Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried
- Big Bertha Stories
- III Love Lives
- Love Life
- Coyotes
- Bumblebees
- IV Beginnings
- from The Girl Sleuth (1975)
- Reaching the Stars: My Life as a Fifties Groupie
- Reading Between the Lines
- from Elvis Presley (2003)
- V Family History
- The Family Farm
- The Pond
- VI Nancy Culpepper
- Nancy Culpepper
- The Prelude
- VII More Love Lives
- Memphis
- Midnight Magic
- Wish
- VIII Whimsy
- La Bamba Hot Line
- Sheep Down Under
- Hot Colors
- Sanctuary
- All Shook Up
- Hear My Song
- Terms of Office
- IX Fiction and History
- from Feather Crowns (1993)
- X Literary Meanderings
- The Universe of Ada
- from Mark Twain’s The American Claimant
- XI Atomic Fact and Fiction
- Fallout
- from An Atomic Romance (2005)
- XII Zigzagging
- With Jazz
- Charger
- XIII Another War
- from The Girl in the Blue Beret(2011)
- The Real Girl in the Blue Beret
- XIV Zanies
- Whale Love
- Talking through Hats
- XV Dancing
- Quinceañera
- The Horsehair Ball Gown
- XVI Flash Fiction
- Corn-Dog
- The Canyon Where the Coyotes Live
- Car Wash
- Cumberbatch
- The Girl in Purple
- The State Pen
- Falling
- XVII The Hot Seat: Interviews
- Bomb Magazine Interview
- Missouri Review Interview
- Transatlantica Interview
- 2paragraphs.com Interview
- Copyrights and Permissions
- About the Author
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