{"product_id":"patchwork-a-bobbie-ann-mason-reader-0813175453","title":"Patchwork: A Bobbie Ann Mason Reader","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0813175453\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Mason, Bobbie Ann\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBobbie 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68081666490656,"sku":"NEW0813175453","price":28.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61vZjo1GDfL.jpg?v=1793528339","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/patchwork-a-bobbie-ann-mason-reader-0813175453","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}