Word: mason
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FICTION: Bech Is Back, John Updike George Mills, Stanley Elkin Ironweed, William Kennedy On the Black Hill, Bruce Chatwin Shiloh and Other Stories, Bobbie Ann Mason ∙The Transfer, Thomas Palmer
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Shiloh and Other Stories, Bobbie Ann Mason...
Shiloh and Other Stones, an important first volume of fiction by Bobbie Ann Mason, 42, introduces a Kentucky of disabled truckers and Rexall waitresses. Her view produces achingly accurate pictures of the commonplace. These tales neither judge nor mystify, but shine like a Formica countertop. "I'm writing about ordinary people rather than alienated superior sensibilities," she explains. "I'm writing about people who are trying desperately to get into the society rather than...
Strong performances by supporting actors, particularly James Mason as the defense attorney, and colorful scenes of Boston also carry the film. The audience's anticipation of a happy-ever-after between Galvin and his enigmatic girlfriend (Charlotte Rampling) dissolves in bitterness in the final scene, when Galvin finds out that this mysterious woman who had helped him get through the trial was a lawyer from the firm of the defending attorney hired to spy on Galvin...