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In this superb memoir, the bestselling author of *In Country* and other award-winning books tells her own story, and the story of a Kentucky farm family, the Masons of Clear Springs. Like Russell Baker's Growing Up, Jill Ker Conway's The Road from Coorain, and other classic literary memoirs, **Clear Springs** takes us back in time to recapture a way of life that has all but disappeared, a country culture deeply rooted in work and food and family, in common sense and music and the land. Clear Springs is also an American woman's odyssey, exploring how a misfit girl who dreamed of distant places grew up in the forties, fifties, and sixties, and fulfilled her ambition to be a writer.A multilayered narrative of three generations--Bobbie Ann Mason, her parents and grandparents--**Clear Springs** gracefully interlaces several different lives, decades, and locales, moving from the industrious life on a Kentucky farm to travels around the South with Mason as president of the Hilltoppers Fan Club; from the hippie lifestyle of the 1960s New York counterculture to the shock-therapy ward of a mental institution; from a farmhouse to the set of a Hollywood movie; from pop music concerts to a smal

Author

Mason, Bobbie Ann

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307830241

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Fiction, Biography

Rating

4.2 / 5 (131 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14