Above the Waterfall - Softcover
Nothing else comes so I set the notebook beside me. What else is here? I ask myself and listen. This section of stream purls and riffles amid small stones. What word might be made for what I hear . . .
Above the Waterfall is the story of Sheriff Les Clary. A man on the verge of retirement, he is plunged into deep and dangerous waters by one final case. A case that will draw him to the lyrical beauty of his surroundings and, in doing so, force him to come to terms with his own past.
Echoing the heartbreaking beauty of William Faulkner and the spiritual isolation of Michel Faber, Above the Waterfall is as poetic as it is haunting.
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"A writer's writer who writes for others" (Colum McCann)
"A gorgeous, brutal writer" (Richard Price)
"One of the great American authors at work today" (Janet Maslin New York Times)
"Ron Rash is a writer of both the darkly beautiful and the sadly true . . . One of our very finest novelists" (Richard Russo)
"Magnificent is suddenly too small a word" (Irish Times)
"Finds a narrow sweet spot between Raymond Carver and William Faulkner." (Washington Post)
"Rash's prose is elegant, suggestive, and Hardyesque." (Boston Globe)
"Combining suspense with acute observations and flashing insights, Rash tells a seductive and disquieting tale about our intrinsic attachment to and disastrous abuse of the land and our betrayal of our best selves" (Starred Booklist) --New York Times
"Alternates between traditional prose and a poetic voice" (Wall Street Journal) --Wall Street Journal
"The book begins as a lyrical, far-reaching reflection on nature and modern-day loneliness . . . Beneath the surface, the novel contemplates more timeless questions about human frailty, the divinity of nature and the legacies of our native landscapes . . . A hybrid of prose poetry, nature writing and literary mystery . . . Exhilarating and beguiling" (Atlanta Journal) --Atlanta Journal
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"A gorgeous, brutal writer" (Richard Price)
"One of the great American authors at work today" (Janet Maslin New York Times)
"Ron Rash is a writer of both the darkly beautiful and the sadly true . . . One of our very finest novelists" (Richard Russo)
"Magnificent is suddenly too small a word" (Irish Times)
"Finds a narrow sweet spot between Raymond Carver and William Faulkner." (Washington Post)
"Rash's prose is elegant, suggestive, and Hardyesque." (Boston Globe)
"Combining suspense with acute observations and flashing insights, Rash tells a seductive and disquieting tale about our intrinsic attachment to and disastrous abuse of the land and our betrayal of our best selves" (Starred Booklist) --New York Times
"Alternates between traditional prose and a poetic voice" (Wall Street Journal) --Wall Street Journal
"The book begins as a lyrical, far-reaching reflection on nature and modern-day loneliness . . . Beneath the surface, the novel contemplates more timeless questions about human frailty, the divinity of nature and the legacies of our native landscapes . . . A hybrid of prose poetry, nature writing and literary mystery . . . Exhilarating and beguiling" (Atlanta Journal) --Atlanta Journal
From New York Times bestselling author Ron Rash comes a haunting novel with the poetic quality of William Faulkner
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- PublisherCanongate Books
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 1782117997
- ISBN 13 9781782117995
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages272
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