Burning Bright - by Ron Rash (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A gorgeous, brutal writer. Richard Price, New York Times bestselling author of Lush Life and ClockersIn Burning Bright, Pen/Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Serena, Ron Rash, captures the eerie beauty and stark violence of Appalachia through the lives of unforgettable characters. With this masterful collection of stories that span the Civil War to the present day, Rash, a supremely talented writer who recalls both John Steinbeck and Cormac McCarthy (The New Yorker), solidifies his reputation as a major contemporary American literary artist."<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>"A gorgeous, brutal writer."<br />--Richard Price, <em>New York Times </em>bestselling author of <em>Lush Life </em>and<em> Clockers</em></p> </p>In <em>Burning Bright, </em>Pen/Faulkner finalist and <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of <em>Serena, </em> Ron Rash, captures the eerie beauty and stark violence of Appalachia through the lives of unforgettable characters. With this masterful collection of stories that span the Civil War to the present day, Rash, a supremely talented writer who "recalls both John Steinbeck and Cormac McCarthy" (<em>The New Yorker</em>), solidifies his reputation as a major contemporary American literary artist.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>Winner of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, <em>Burning Bright</em> captures the complexities of Appalachia--a rugged, brutal landscape of exceptional beauty, promise, and suffering that serves as <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author Ron Rash's muse. Spanning from the Civil War to the present day, Rash's historical and modern settings are sewn together in a haunting patchwork of suspense and myth, populated by raw and unforgettable characters mined from the landscape.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"[Rash] is a master craftsman who pares down language to its essential elements in these starkly beautiful stories."--<em>Library Journal</em><br><br>"A slender set of spare and menacing depictions of the unforgiving ways of life in rural Appalachia, Burning Bright finds a narrow sweet spot between Raymond Carver's minimalism and William Faulkner's Gothic."--<em>Washington Post</em><br><br>"These are hard stories. These are hard people. But their troubles are never anything less than compelling...Rash has a feel for Appalachia and its ways, its rough justice, its loyalties... [Rash] has written a memorable, if often brutal, elegy for a vanishing way of life."--<em>Miami Herald</em><br><br>"For the past 15 years, Ron Rash has been carving out a position as one of the best writers in America writing about Appalachia... BURNING BRIGHT is raw, honest and assured."--<em>San Francisco Chronicle</em><br><br>"The deserving winner of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story competition here gathers several of the finest stories anyone could hope to read. These are powerful excursions into the darkest areas of human experience. Magnificent is suddenly too small a word."--Irish Times<br><br>"A finely crafted, understated collection of 12 stories....Rash writes the way the old bluegrass musicians sing: in a stark, high-lonesome voice capturing the yearning and despair of characters who have lost almost everything but their pride."--Atlanta Journal-Constitution<br><br>"Finely drawn stories...a collection to be read for the quality of the prose, which reflects Rash's intimate knowledge of this region and its history. His heart is clearly in this place ."--The Oregonian (Portland)<br><br>"Rash...is at the top of his game."--Time Out New York<br><br>"Ron Rash (SERENA) delivers compelling bleakness in BURNING BRIGHT, a collection of powerful short stories set in the hardscrabble towns of Appalachia."--San Diego Union-Tribune<br><br>"Ron Rash is a writer of quiet and stunning beauty... The stories in BURNING BRIGHT are beautiful. Each story is luminescent, deeply communicative of Appalachia and perfectly framed with sentences both lyrical and grounded."--Huffington Post<br><br>"The ferally beautiful stories in Ron Rash's BURNING BRIGHT evoke Appalachians of a Civil War past-- and a meth-blighted present-- with the haunting clarity of Walker Evans photographs."--Vogue<br><br>"The skill with which [Ron Rash's] tales are constructed is more apparent in Burning Bright... these paired down short stories make it much easier to see how expertly Mr. Rash fine-tunes his work... elegantly sophisticated work...Mr. Rash certainly knows how to rivet attention."--Janet Maslin, New York Times<br>
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