Ron Rash
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015], 2016.
Physical Desc
252 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Enduring the mistakes and tragedies that have shaped their lives in contemporary Appalachia, a sheriff on the brink of retirement and a haunted park ranger confront violent forces when an elderly local is accused of poisoning a trout stream.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The year is 1929, and newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton travel from Boston to the North Carolina mountains where they plan 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 to be the equal of any man, overseeing crews, hunting rattle-snakes, even saving her husband's life in the wilderness. Together this lord and lady of...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Estranged for decades after a turbulent 1969 summer spent with a free-spirited redhead, two brothers are forced by a shocking reminder to confront the past events that divided them.
4) The cove
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Living deep within a cove in the Appalachians of North Carolina during World War I, Laurel Shelton finally finds the happiness she deserves in Walter, a mysterious stranger who is mute, but their love cannot protect them from a devastating secret.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's 1951 in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Blackburn Gant, his life irrevocably altered by a childhood case of polio, seems condemned to spend his life among the dead as the sole caretaker of a hilltop cemetery. It suits his withdrawn personality, and the inexplicable occurrences that happen from time to time rattle him less than interaction with the living. But when his best and only friend, the kind but impulsive Jacob Hampton, is conscripted to...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
220 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ron Rash has long been a revered presence in the landscape of American letters. A virtuosic novelist, poet, and story writer, he evokes the beauty and brutality of the land, the relentless tension between past and present, and the unquenchable human desire to be a little bit better than circumstances would seem to allow (to paraphrase Faulkner). In these ten stories, Rash spins a haunting allegory of the times we live in--rampant capitalism, the...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint for HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
434 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling award-winning author of Serena and The Cove, thirty of his finest short stories, collected in one volume. No one captures the complexities of Appalachia-a rugged, brutal landscape of exquisite beauty-as evocatively and indelibly as author and poet Ron Rash. Winner of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, two O Henry prizes, and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, Rash brilliantly illuminates...
9) Serena
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
In 1929, just as the Depression has hit, George and Serena Pemberton, love-struck newlyweds, move from Boston to North Carolina to build a timber empire. Serena soon proves herself to be equal to any man: overseeing loggers, hunting rattlesnakes, even saving a man's life in the wilderness. With power and influence now in their hands, the Pembertons refuse to let anyone stand in the way of their inflated love and ambitions. However, once Serena discovers...
11) One foot in Eden
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st Picador ed.
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English