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LA Times Book Review -- December 29, 2002 --
First Fiction -- By Mark Rozzo --
One Foot in Eden, Ron Rash, Novello Festival Press: 222 pp., $21.95 -- Here's Billy Holcombe, hardscrabble tobacco farmer and luckless
fisherman, musing on the overwhelming predicament he's found himself in:
"I couldn't outsmart a fish with a brain the size of a butter bean
but here I was trying to out slick a sheriff who'd passed most of his life
catching people like me." The narrators who take turns telling this
dark tale of infertility, infidelity and murder in a mountainous corner of
South Carolina in the 1950s have their own unique ways of talking. And, as
much as they seem to be in denial half the time, they can be, like Billy,
downright startling in their self-assessments...
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READING THE SOUTH -- 'One Foot in Eden' set in South Carolina -- by Hal Jacobs for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, December 29, 2002 -- Ron Rash's "One Foot in Eden" (Novello Festival Press, $21.95) begins with an interesting mystery set in 1950s South Carolina. The sheriff knows that a local farmer has killed his neighbor. He knows that the neighbor was in the habit of wearing his military uniform in the middle of the day to visit the farmer's pretty wife. He knows that two shotgun blasts rang out the afternoon that the man disappeared. All the sheriff needs is a body...
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Mystery in the mountains -- Charlotte Observer - Polly Paddock - Book Editor - Monday November 11, 2002 -- ONE FOOT IN EDEN - The Appalachian setting of S.C. poet Ron Rash's first novel -- as critical to his story as any character -- is a ruggedly beautiful but forbidding landscape, the isolated Jocassee Valley of the 1950s. The Cherokee called it the "Valley of the Lost," and as Rash makes clear, the name was prophetic. There, amid hard-scrabble farms, rocky outcroppings and a river soon to be dammed for a hydroelectric plant, Rash sets his haunting "One Foot in Eden."
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Charlotte’s Creative Loafing publication, October 9, 2002 -- Land Left Behind -- Love, murder and loss in the mountains -- BY DIANA PINCKNEY -- Ron Rash writes like a landscape painter and it is the land that is the heart of this haunting tale of love, murder and loss. The characters in his story are motivated by a yearning to leave some part of themselves in this world after they are gone, something connected to the valleys and mountains they so dearly love.
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