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Ron Rash
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Nothing Gold Can Stay
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PEN/Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestselling author Ron Rash returns again toAppalachia to capture lives haunted by violence and tenderness, hope and fear in unforgettablestories that span the Civil War to the present day.
In the title story, two drug addicted friends return to the farm where they worked as boys tosteal their boss's unusual but valuable war trophies. In 'The Trusty', Ron Rash's first story toappear in the New Yorker, a prisoner sent to fetch water for the chain gang tries to sweet talk afarmer's young wife into helping him escape, only to find she is as trapped as he is.
In 'SomethingRich and Strange', a diver is called upon to pull a drowned girl's body free from under a falls, butfinds her eerily at peace below the surface. The violence of Rash's characters and their rawsettings are matched only by their unexpected tenderness and stark beauty, a masterfulcombination that has earned Rash an avalanche of praise.
In the title story, two drug addicted friends return to the farm where they worked as boys tosteal their boss's unusual but valuable war trophies. In 'The Trusty', Ron Rash's first story toappear in the New Yorker, a prisoner sent to fetch water for the chain gang tries to sweet talk afarmer's young wife into helping him escape, only to find she is as trapped as he is.
In 'SomethingRich and Strange', a diver is called upon to pull a drowned girl's body free from under a falls, butfinds her eerily at peace below the surface. The violence of Rash's characters and their rawsettings are matched only by their unexpected tenderness and stark beauty, a masterfulcombination that has earned Rash an avalanche of praise.
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