Burning Bright - Hardcover

Ron Rash

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0857861158 ISBN 13: 9780857861153

Publisher: Canongate Books, 2013

Synopsis

Jacob and Edna have fallen on hard times. They haven't lost everything the way others have, but they have lost enough. When one of their hens stops laying eggs, it seems like the final straw. Jacob is determined to solve the mystery. What he discovers is as heartbreaking as it is revelatory. This is just one of the remarkable stories in Burning Bright - an award-winning collection that confirms why Ron Rash has won comparisons with John Steinbeck, Cormac McCarthy and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It is rare that an author can capture the complexities of a place as though it were a person, as Ron Rash does with the rugged, brutal landscape of the Appalachian Mountains. At the same time, again and again he conjures characters that live long in the mind after their stories have been told.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Winner of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, Burning Bright captures the complexities of Appalachia—a rugged, brutal landscape of exceptional beauty, promise, and suffering that serves as New York Times 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.

About the Author:

Ron Rash is the author of several story collections and novels, including Serena, also published by Canongate. He lives in the Appalachian Mountains, USA.

About this edition

• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0857861158
• ISBN 13: 9780857861153
• Binding: Hardcover