\u003cP\u003eBobbie Ann Mason burst onto the American literary scene during a renaissance of short fiction that Raymond Carver called a \"literary phenomenon.\" Anne Tyler hailed Mason as \"a full-fledged master of the short story.\" Mason's work, charged with a spirit of exploration, garnered both popular and critical acclaim.\u003c/P\u003e\u003cP\u003eThis reader collects outstanding examples of Mason's award-winning work from throughout her writing career and provides a unique look at the development of one of the country's finest writers. \u003cI\u003ePatchwork\u003c/I\u003e contains short stories first published in the \u003cI\u003eNew Yorker \u003c/I\u003eand other leading periodicals; chapters from Mason's acclaimed novels, including \u003cI\u003eIn Country, An Atomic Romance,\u003c/I\u003e and \u003cI\u003eThe Girl in the Blue Beret\u003c/I\u003e; and riveting excerpts from Mason's eclectic nonfiction. Some examples of Mason's recent explorations in flash fiction appear here in print for the first time.\u003c/P\u003e\u003cP\u003eMason's writing glows with a nuanced understanding of the struggles and pathos of American life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. George Saunders writes in his introduction, \"Bobbie Ann Mason is a strange and beautiful writer.... Her stories exist to gently touch on, and praise, even mourn, what it feels like to be alive in this moment.\" \u003cI\u003ePatchwork\u003c/I\u003e conveys Mason's extraordinary talent and range as a writer.\u003c/P\u003e
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