Love Life
by Bobbie Ann Mason
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"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."Tags
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I enjoyed the focus on everyday, generally working class lives, the stories’ fluency, and the gentle, rather closure-resistant endings.
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Bobbie Ann Mason is the author of the novels "In Country" "Spence+Lila', & "Feather Crowns", which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award & won the Southern Book Award. Her short-story collection "Shiloh & Other Stories" won the PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction & was nominated for other major prizes. Her memoir, "Clear show more Springs", was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Her fiction has appeared in "The New Yorker", "The Atlantic Monthly", & elsewhere. She lives in Kentucky. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Love Life
- Original publication date
- 1989
- First words
- Opal lolls in her recliner, wearing the Coors cap her niece Jenny brought her from Colorado.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Her dress had self-covered buttons, hard like seed corn.
- Blurbers
- Kakutani, Michiko; Moore, Lorrie; Willis, Meredith Sue
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- Reviews
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- Languages
- English, German
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 7
- ASINs
- 2
