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Shiloh and Other Stories

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Originally published
  
1982

Genre
  
Fiction

3.9/5
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Author
  
Bobbie Ann Mason

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Awards
  
Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award

Nominations
  
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, National Book Award for Fiction (Hardcover)

Similar
  
Bobbie Ann Mason books, Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winners, Fiction books

Shiloh and Other Stories is a 1982 collection of short stories written by American author Bobbie Ann Mason. The collection won the Ernest Hemingway Foundation award for fiction. The collection brought Mason her first critical acclaim.

The short story alluded to in the collection's title, "Shiloh", revolves around a man named Leroy who lives in rural Kentucky and is forced to quit his job as a truck driver after an accident. The plot centers around his attempt to adjust to life after the accident, while at the same time facing problems with his marriage and attempting to cope with the urbanization of his neighborhood, which was once a community of farmers.The story ends with Leroy and his wife Norma Jean visiting the battlefield of Shiloh, where Norma Jean tells Leroy that she is leaving him because she no longer loves him. Norma Jean then walks to the edge of the bluff and looks over, Leroy pursues her, and the story ends. The reader isn't quite sure as to how things end at Shiloh.

References

Shiloh and Other Stories Wikipedia