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Bobbie Ann Mason
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"Ann Workman is a naive student. A misfit of sorts, she's traveled all the way from rural Kentucky to graduate school in literature in 1967. But Anne wants more than a good education-she wants a boyfriend. Ann wants the 'Real Thing', to be in love with someone who loves her. Jimmy appears as if by magic, and is everything Ann's been looking for. Although he is from a very different place, a privileged background in suburban Chicago, he is a misfit...
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A turn-of-the-twentieth century historical novel about the impact of the first multiple birth "possesses both gravity and grace" and "the power to move us" (New York Times).
A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, this brilliantly wrought novel from acclaimed author Bobbie Ann Mason imagines the circumstances surrounding the birth of the first quintuplets in early 1900s America.
Set in the apocalyptic atmosphere...
A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, this brilliantly wrought novel from acclaimed author Bobbie Ann Mason imagines the circumstances surrounding the birth of the first quintuplets in early 1900s America.
Set in the apocalyptic atmosphere...
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"These stories will last," said Raymond Carver of Shiloh and Other Stories when it was first published, and almost two decades later this stunning fiction debut and winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award has become a modern American classic. In Shiloh, Bobbie Ann Mason introduces us to her western Kentucky people and the lives they forge for themselves amid the ups and downs of contemporary American life, and she poignantly captures the...
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Inspired by a true story, the bestselling author of In Country offers a gorgeous, haunting novel about an airline pilot coming to terms with his past, and searching for the people who saved him during World War II. After Marshall Stone's B-17 bomber was shot down in occupied Europe in 1944, people in the French Resistance helped him escape to safety. One of the brave French people who risked their lives for him was a lively girl in Paris-a girl identified...
