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Summer 1989 • Vol. XI No. 3 • Book Reviews |

The World of Bobbie Ann Mason

By Devon Jersild

Spence and Lila by Bobbie Ann Mason. New York: Harper & Row, 1988. 176 pages. $12.95.

Love Life by Bobbie Ann Mason. New York: Harper & Row, 1989. 208 pages. $16.95.

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I grew up on the Nebraska plains, where I always felt that the absence of boundaries gave my spirit too broad a range. There was nowhere to lodge an emotion, […]

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