{"product_id":"in-country-easton-press-signed-collectors-edition","title":"In Country (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMASON, Bobbie Ann.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eIn Country.\u003c\/em\u003e Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2014.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e8vo. Full green leather. Spine with five raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Gilt-ruled covers with illustrations in gilt. All edges gilt. Silk endpapers. Sewn-in satin bookmark. [x], 247 pp. \u003cstrong\u003eSigned Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special signature page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper.\u003c\/strong\u003e Originally published New York: Harper \u0026amp; Row, 1985.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eBobbie Ann Mason (b. 1940) grew up in Mayfield, Kentucky, took her PhD at the University of Connecticut, and published her first collection of short stories, \u003cem\u003eShiloh and Other Stories\u003c\/em\u003e, in 1982 — winning the PEN\/Hemingway Award and establishing herself as one of the most distinctive voices in American fiction of her generation. Her memoir \u003cem\u003eClear Springs\u003c\/em\u003e (1999) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. \u003cem\u003eIn Country\u003c\/em\u003e, published in 1985, was her first novel and remains her most widely read work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe novel is set in Hopewell, Kentucky, in the summer of 1984 — almost a decade after the fall of Saigon, in a country that has still not finished processing what it did and what was done in its name. Samantha Hughes is seventeen years old. Her father Dwayne was killed in Vietnam before she was born. She lives with her uncle Emmett, also a Vietnam veteran, who is developing a skin condition she fears may be linked to Agent Orange, and who moves through civilian life with the particular disorientation of a man who cannot fully inhabit a world that has moved on without him. Sam has grown up without the war but surrounded by its residue — in Emmett, in the veterans who congregate in her town, in the M\u003cem\u003eA\u003c\/em\u003eS*H reruns on television that seem to make the war both present and completely unreal. She becomes obsessed with understanding what happened, and with her father, the soldier-boy in the photograph who never changed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eMason's achievement was to approach Vietnam from the perspective of those left behind — the wives, the children, the people for whom the war was an absence rather than an experience — and to find in that perspective an understanding of the conflict's domestic cost that the combat narratives could not provide. The novel's final scene, at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, is one of the most precisely observed and emotionally exact closing sequences in American fiction of its decade. Norman Jewison's 1989 film adaptation starred Bruce Willis as Emmett and Emily Lloyd as Sam.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFine. \u003c\/strong\u003ePresenting as new.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000532\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bobbie Ann Mason","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49086349443315,"sku":"1110002990571","price":130.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_1592703b-6339-4372-bb10-495b44ece307.png?v=1779148343","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/in-country-easton-press-signed-collectors-edition","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}