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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...
...SHILOH AND OTHER STORIES by Bobbie Ann Mason Harper & Row; 247pages...
When they leave their homes, settlers are supposed to carry weapons day and night, and some are quite willing to use them. Two weeks ago, when Arab youths put up a makeshift roadblock along the route to the Jewish settlement of Shiloh, two carloads of settlers crashed through the obstruction, firing rifles and submachine guns as they proceeded. Not until five days later was the body of a 17-year-old Arab youth discovered on a hillside near by. Police subsequently arrested and charged the secretary of the settlement, Nathan Nathanson, 38, with the shooting. Last week, at another roadblock...
When the moment came to slip on the special burlap tarp, Mrs. Myers went up and put her hand on the tree and cried. An undertaker from their hamlet of Shiloh had asked Mr. Myers if he wanted to have a little service for the tree, but Mr. Myers declared firmly, "No, this is one you are not going...