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Ron Rash
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Laurel Shelton and her
brother Hank are living out on farmland the
locals say is cursed. And maybe it is.
Laurel is born with a large birthmark that
neighbors take as a sign of witchery. Hank
loses an arm while serving overseas in WW I.
When Hank falls in love with a woman who
refuses to live there, Hank secretly plans
to leave his sister behind.
But Laurel’s fate is forever altered when
she comes upon a stranger in the woods one
day, a stranger she saves from a near-fatal
accident. With only a simple haversack of
worldly belongings, including his treasured
flute and note explaining that he is mute
and bound for New York, the stranger slowly
insinuates himself into life in the Cove,
helping Hank on the farm, playing his
ethereal music in the long twilit evenings,
and, eventually...
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The acclaimed Pen/Faulkner
finalist and New York Times best-selling
author of Serena captures the eerie beauty,
stark violence, and rugged character of
Appalachia in stories that span the Civil
War to present day.
Few writers know the heart and soul of a
region, as does Ron Rash. Like William
Faulkner’s Mississippi or Ivan Doig’s
Montana, Rash’s Appalachia is a dichotomous
land of beauty and brutality settled by
characters as remarkable and enduring as the
mountains and hollows they call home...
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The year is 1929, and
newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton arrive
from Boston in the North Carolina mountains
to create a timber empire. Although George
has already lived in the camp long enough to
father an illegitimate child, Serena is new
to the mountains—but she soon shows herself
the equal of any worker, overseeing crews,
hunting rattlesnakes, even saving her
husband’s life in the wilderness. Together,
this Lord and Lady Macbeth of the woodlands
ruthlessly kill or vanquish all who fall out
of favor. Yet when Serena learns that she
will never bear a child...
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Ron Rash is the poet
laureate of Appalachia, a writer whose
insight and empathy have illuminated this
terrain in three transcendent novels,
stories and collections of poems. In his
latest volume of stories, spanning the
entire twentieth century in this region,
Rash chronicles the onset of the modern era
in rural communities, the deterioration of
the old ways, and the violent arrival of a
larger world.
Three old men stalk the shadow of a giant
fish no one else in town believes is there.
A son watches his father take up scuba
diving in the town reservoir...
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In a rural Appalachian
community haunted by the legacy of a Civil
War massacre, a rebellious young man
struggles to escape the violence that would
bind him to the past. Travis Shelton is
seventeen the summer he wanders onto a
neighbor’s property in the woods, discovers
a crop of marijuana large enough to make him
some serious money, and steps into the jaws...
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In SAINTS AT THE RIVER, the drowning of a
thirteen-year-old girl, swept away in a whitewater river while on
vacation, divides a small Appalachian town. This tragedy brings a young
woman journalist to the community of her childhood, and on a trip back
home that forces her to confront issues buried in her past...
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"One Foot in Eden is a story of wild, almost primitive force and yet it is neatly and ingeniously put together. Ron Rash knows to the core the ways of those who yearn for what is just beyond their grasp. He has given us the strength of tragedy with the compassion of someone who cares deeply. Here is a lasting
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