Mason, Bobbie Ann

In country : a novel by Bobbie Ann Mason( Book )
71 editions published between 1981 and 2011 in 9 languages and held by 3,266 libraries worldwide
Eighteen-year-old Sam resents the effects of the Vietnam War, especially the death of her father and her uncle's suffering from Agent Orange ingestion.

Feather crowns : a novel by Bobbie Ann Mason( Book )
20 editions published between 1993 and 1995 in English and Dutch and held by 2,027 libraries worldwide
Set in the apocalyptic atmosphere of 1900 - a time when many Americans were looking for signs foretelling the end of the world - Feather Crowns is the story of a young woman who unintentionally creates a national sensation. A firm wife living near the small town of Hopewell, Kentucky, Christianna Wheeler gives birth to the first recorded set of quintuplets in North America. Christie is suddenly thrown into a swirling storm of public attention. Thousands of strangers descend on her home, all wanting to see and touch the "miracle babies." One visitor crawls right in through the window! The fate of the babies and the bizarre events that follow their births propel Christie and her husband far from home, on a journey that exposes them to the turbulent pageant of life at the beginning of the modern era. Richly detailed and poignant, Feather Crowns focuses on one woman but opens out ultimately into the chronicle of a time and a people. Written in Bobbie Ann Mason's taut yet lyrical prose, the novel ranges from a peaceful farming community to a fire-and-brimstone revival camp, from seamy traveling shows to the hushed precincts of the nation's capital. Moving through the center of it all is Christie, a charming, headstrong, loving woman who struggles heroically to come to terms with the extraordinary events of her long life. Feather Crowns is an American parable of profound resonance. Spellbindingly readable, it is a novel of classic stature destined to confirm Bobbie Ann Mason as one of America's most important writers.

Shiloh and other stories by Bobbie Ann Mason( Book )
26 editions published between 1982 and 2001 in 3 languages and held by 1,880 libraries worldwide
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.

Spence + Lila by Bobbie Ann Mason( Book )
17 editions published between 1988 and 1998 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,683 libraries worldwide
This unusual love story is about Spence and Lila Culpepper who have been married for more than forty years. It tells of the responses of their respective hearts to their first major encounter with old age and mortality. Lila has been hospitalized and goes through one medical procedure after another while her dazed husband and adult children stand helplessly by.

Love life : stories by Bobbie Ann Mason( Book )
12 editions published between 1988 and 1990 in English and held by 1,528 libraries worldwide
"One of the most highly regarded writers in America, the author of 'In Country' presents sixteen wise and potent stories that are mainly about small-town people coping with love: its kinds and degrees, its pressures and residues, its ties and kinks."

Elvis Presley by Bobbie Ann Mason( Book )
16 editions published between 2002 and 2007 in English and Spanish and held by 1,515 libraries worldwide
The life and career of music's most famous performer.

Clear Springs : a memoir by Bobbie Ann Mason( Book )
15 editions published in 1999 in English and held by 1,219 libraries worldwide
In this memoir, the author of In Country and other award-winning books tells her own story, and the story of a Kentucky farm family, the Masons of Clear Springs. Clear Springs takes us back in time to recapture a way of life that has all but disappeared, a country culture deeply rooted in work and food and family, in common sense and music and the land. A multilayered narrative of three generations - Bobbie Ann Mason, her parents and grandparents - Clear Springs gracefully interlaces several different lives, decades, and locales, moving from the industrious life on a Kentucky farm to travels around the South with Mason as president of the Hilltoppers Fan Club; from the hippie lifestyle of the 1960s New York counterculture to the shock-therapy ward of a mental institution; from a farmhouse to the set of a Hollywood movie; from pop music concerts to a small rustic schoolhouse. Clear Springs depicts the changes that have come to family, to women, and to heartland America in the twentieth century, as well as to Bobbie Ann Mason herself. When the movie of Mason's bestselling novel In Country is filmed near Clear Springs, it brings the first limousines to town, even as it brings out once again the wisdom and values of Mason's remarkable parents. Her mother, especially, stands at the center of this book. Mason's journey leads her to a recognition of the drama and significance of her mother's life and to a new understanding of heritage, place, and family roots.

Zigzagging down a wild trail : stories by Bobbie Ann Mason( Book )
8 editions published between 2001 and 2002 in English and held by 1,199 libraries worldwide
With jazz -- Tobrah -- Tunica -- Thunder snow -- Rolling into Atlanta -- Three wheeler -- The funeral side -- Window lights -- Proper gypsies -- Night flight -- Charger.

An atomic romance : a novel by Bobbie Ann Mason( Book )
7 editions published between 2005 and 2006 in English and held by 1,137 libraries worldwide
Reed Futrell spends his time working in the town's uranium plant and chasing his girlfriend, a biologist named Julia, until rumors of plutonium contamination at the plant and Reed's refusal to see the danger threaten their relationship.

Nancy Culpepper : stories by Bobbie Ann Mason( Book )
8 editions published between 2006 and 2007 in English and held by 1,047 libraries worldwide
Kentucky native Nancy Culpepper boldly left home to attend school in Massachusetts, married a Yankee, and raised her son in the Northeast. Yet no matter where she travels, her rural southern heritage is never far from her thoughts, her habits, and her heart. Nancy is on a lifelong quest to understand her place in the world. Returning home to the family farm, she brings home strange ideas and an assertiveness she learned up north. Always adventurous, Nancy travels far and wide--searching, seeking. The narrative sweep of her life traverses the turbulent sixties, the Vietnam War, the eighties and the foreboding death of John Lennon, and finally the new millennium--when a self-assured Nancy finally emerges.--From publisher description.