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Nancy Culpepper: Stories
Kentucky native Nancy Culpepper boldly left home to attend school in Massachusetts, married a Yankee, and raised her son in the Northeast. “One day I was feeding chickens and listening to Hank Williams and the next day I was expected to know what wines went with what,” she tells her husband, Jack. Yet no matter where she travels, her rural southern heritage is never far fr...more
Paperback, 240 pages
Published
August 14th 2007
by Random House Trade Paperbacks
(first published 2006)
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This novel about the title character was told in a series of short stories. It described her character and motivation well at first, but then the last two stories seemed to come out of nowhere. I guess the author Bobbie Ann Mason was trying to make art imitate life because that happens to a lot of us. Nevertheless, I found it unnerving and so I'm giving it three stars instead of 4. I had read an earlier book of hers "In Country" and thought that that book was written with more sensitiv...more
Bobbie Ann Mason is from Kentucky. There are many parallels in the life of Nancy Culpepper and my life. I find Mason's characters to be geniune. I think often sending a child to college, when the parents did not have that opportunity creates a gap that is hard to bridge in a satisfactory way to the parents and the children.
I used to love, love, love Bobbie Ann Mason, back in the late 80s, early 90s. She writes about an area of the country, western Kentucky, specifically around Paducah, where I lived from age 5 - 10, in the early 70s. I hadn't picked up anything of hers in years and was afraid that my tastes would have changed significantly or that what appealed to me originally would be gone. I was pleasantly surprised with this book.
She deals with leaving a rural way of life for a more urban one, d...more
She deals with leaving a rural way of life for a more urban one, d...more
Loved the Spence & Lila story more than the rest of the book. But, overall, it made me think of my family in Missouri and how different my life might be if my parents had stayed in that farming community.
Who doesn't love to read anything by Bobbie Ann Mason! I loved the format of this book which was more like a collection of interconnected short fiction. Tasty little bites that formed a whole cake.
Nothing special about this book. I plowed through it but was disappointed and probably should have stopped 1/2 way through
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Bobbie Ann Mason has won the PEN/Hemingway Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the American Book Award, and the PEN/Faulkner Award. Her books include In Country and Feather Crowns. She lives in Kentucky.
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