In Country Bobbie Ann Mason Quotes & Sayings

'In Country' is about a high school girl's quest for knowledge about her father, who died in Vietnam just before she was born. — Bobbie Ann Mason

Because we lived only a mile outside the town of Mayfield, I was acutely conscious of being country. I felt inferior to people in town because we had to grow our food and make our clothes. — Bobbie Ann Mason

In the country in Kentucky, people are just amazed that anybody in New York wants to read about their lives. — Bobbie Ann Mason

Most of the time I was in the Northeast, I lived in the country, and I think that helped me to discover my material for writing. — Bobbie Ann Mason

I used my NEA fellowship to write my novel, 'In Country,' which was published by Harper & Row in 1985. — Bobbie Ann Mason

'In Country' was also made into a film, which opened the story up to a broader audience. — Bobbie Ann Mason

In America, we all come from somewhere else, and we carry along some dream myth of home: a notion that something - our point of origin, our roots, the home country - is out there. — Bobbie Ann Mason