

In Country
Author: Bobbie Ann Mason
Narrator: Jill Brennan
Unabridged: 9 hr 48 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 05/03/2011
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Women, Nonfiction, Literary Collections
Author: Bobbie Ann Mason
Narrator: Jill Brennan
Unabridged: 9 hr 48 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 05/03/2011
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Women, Nonfiction, Literary Collections
Bobbie Ann Mason is the author of a number of works of fiction, including The Girl in the Blue Beret, In Country, An Atomic Romance, and Nancy Culpepper. The groundbreaking Shiloh and Other Stories won the PEN Hemingway Award and was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the American Book Award, and the PEN Faulkner Award. Her memoir, Clear Springs, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has won two Southern Book Awards and numerous other prizes, including the O. Henry and the Pushcart. Former writer-in-residence at the University of Kentucky, she lives in Kentucky.
This book wasn't bad at all and there wasn't anything I particularly disliked about it, it just feel very flat for me. The main character is sorting through identity issues because her father died in Vietnam before she was born so she's trying to learn about Vietnam to unveil some of the secrecy beh......more
This book has stuck with me since I first read it ten years ago in an American Literature college course. It's a book that, stylistically, probably deserves four stars; there are some awkward jolts in the momentum of the story. But I can't bring myself to lower my perfect rating. I get so attached t......more
"I'll tell you my Vietnam story," Anita said..."One spring weekend in 1969 I was on a bus to Bowling Green going to see my aunt, and some boys got on at Fort Campbell. One of them sat across from me and talked with me. I was reading a book of poetry. This boy tried to read it over my shoulder, and h......more
As someone obsessed with Vietnam, the '80s, and strange-girls-coming-of-age stories, I was keen to read this one. And for the first 3/4 of the book, it didn't disappoint. Great heroine, set in the South, lots of references to early MTV, and a gripping central mystery: are Uncle Emmett's health probl......more
The human fallout from the Vietnam War is explored in this thought-provoking novel. Set in the mid-1980s, the story focuses on Sam, a teenager who never met her father, who was killed in action, and her struggles to relate to other family and community members who continue to wrestle with their own......more