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Ron Rash
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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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