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Clear Springs (Paperback)

By: Bobbie Ann Mason (Author)


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"An appreciative but often bittersweet meditation on southern family and cultural change....[A] sharp, perceptive family memoir."

"Because Bobbie Ann Mason's language is spare and her eye unsparing, she's able to handle matters that ordinarily invite sentimentality or romanticism."

Publisher's note

People love and remember the novels of Bobbie Ann Mason because they ring so true. This dazzling memoir saga of three generations, their aspirations, their conflicts, and the ties that bound them to one another. Spanning decades, Clear Springs gracefully weaves together the stories of Mason's grandparents, parents, and her won generation. The narrative moves from the sober industriousness of a Kentucky farm to the hippie lifestyle of the countercultural 1960s; from a New York fan magazine to the shock-therapy ward of a mental institution; from a county poorhouse to the set of a Hollywood movie; from a small rustic schoolhouse to glittering pop music concerts. In the process of recounting her own odyssey--the story of a misfit girl who dreamed of distant places--Mason depicts the changes that have come to family, to women, and to heartland America in the twentieth century. Ultimately, Clear Springs is a heartfelt portrait of an extended family, and a profound affirmation of the importance of family love.

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Mason's gentle memoir of the town where she grew up--Clear Springs, Kentucky. The town had a profound effect not only on her work, which is often set in similar place, but on her life: First she repudiated it and the narrow-minded culture it represented, and then she learned to accept and finally to appreciate the richness of her background. A New York Times Notable Book in 1999.



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