Nothing Gold Can Stay

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PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FINALIST AND Nero York Times bestselling author Ron Rash turns again to Appalachia to capture hves haunted by violence and tenderness, hope and fear, in unforgettable stories that span from the Civil War to the present day.
In the title story, tvsro drug-addicted friends return to the farm w^here they w^orked as boys to steal their former boss's gruesomely unusual war trophies. In "The Trusty," vv^hich first appeared in The Nen/ Yorker, a prisoner sent to fetch vv^ater for his chain gang tries to sweet-talk a farmer's young wife into helping him escape, only to find that she is as trapped as he is. In "Something Rich and Strange," a diver is called upon to pull a drowned girl's body free from under a falls, but he finds her eerily at peace below the surface. The violence of Rash's characters and their raw settings are matched only by their resonance and stark beauty, a masterful combination that has earned Rash an avalanche of praise.
PRAISE FOR RON RASH
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PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FINALIST AND Nero York Times bestselling author Ron Rash turns again to Appalachia to capture hves haunted by violence and tenderness, hope and fear, in unforgettable stories that span from the Civil War to the present day.
In the title story, tvsro drug-addicted friends return to the farm w^here they w^orked as boys to steal their former boss's gruesomely unusual war trophies. In "The Trusty," vv^hich first appeared in The Nen/ Yorker, a prisoner sent to fetch vv^ater for his chain gang tries to sweet-talk a farmer's young wife into helping him escape, only to find that she is as trapped as he is. In "Something Rich and Strange," a diver is called upon to pull a drowned girl's body free from under a falls, but he finds her eerily at peace below the surface. The violence of Rash's characters and their raw settings are matched only by their resonance and stark beauty, a masterful combination that has earned Rash an avalanche of praise.
PRAISE FOR RON RASH
"A gorgeous, brutal writer." —RICHARD PRICE
"Ron Rash [has a] reputation for writerly miracles." / ' - J A N E T M A S LIN, Nevf York Times '
"Rbn Rash is a writer of both the darkly beautiful and the sadly true one of our very finest novelists." —RICHARD RUSSO
PRAISE FOR SERENA
"Masterfully written----The book is consistently heartbreaking
in its portrayal of what humans are capable of." —San Francisco Chronicle
"Alluring,\sometimes erotic, often frightening The final chapter is as flawless nd captivating as anything I've read this year, a perfectly creepy shock that will leave you hea^ring nothing but the wind between the stumps." —Washington Post
"Stark, fierce, dramatic and gripping from its unforgettable \ opening paragraph."—iVew YorA JiTwej-
PRA^ISE FOR BURNING BRIGHT
findis a narrow sweet spot between Raymond Carver's minimalism and ^iUiam Faulkner's Gothic." —Washington Post
"Rash tan create a character in a single sentence; this is the great American short story at its best." —The Times (London)
"Rash writes the way the old bluegrass musicians sing: in a stark, high-loriesome voice capturing the yearning and despair of characters who have lost almost everything but their pride." —Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"Elegantly sophisticated work, Mr. Rash certainly knows how to rivet attention." —Neyp York Times \ Vissza