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"These stories can last," stated Raymond Carver of Shiloh and Other Stories when it had been first printed, and nearly 2 decades later this beautiful fiction debut and winner of the PEN/Hemingway Prize has turned into a modern American classic. In Shiloh, Bobbie Ann Mason introduces us to her developed Ky people and the lives they create for themselves amid the ups and downs of modern American life, and she poignantly reflects the growing problems of the Brand New South in the lives of her characters as they arrived at terms with feminism, r rated films, and game titles. "Bobbie Ann Mason is some of those rare authors who, by focusing their attention on the few square kilometers of local grass, can open new and remarkably broad sides for the happy audience," stated Robert Towers in The New York Overview of Books.