Serena (P.S.) - Softcover

Rash, Ron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061470848 ISBN 13: 9780061470844

Publisher: Ecco Press, 2009

Synopsis

A New York Times bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist, Serena by award-winning author Ron Rash is "masterfully written...sprawling, engrossing and--from time to time--nightmarish," (San Francisco Chronicle); a remarkable novel that "recalls both John Steinbeck and Cormac McCarthy," (The New Yorker). Rash's chilling gothic tale of greed, corruption, and revenge set against the backdrop of the 1930s wilderness and America's burgeoning environmental movement was named a Best Book of the Year by more than a dozen national publications, including the New York Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, and Miami Herald. Serena is brilliant contemporary fiction that exquisitely balances beauty and violence, passion and rage, cruelty and love.

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Review:

"Ron Rash's SERENA will stand as one of the major American novels of this century. It is a flat-out masterpiece-mythic, terrifying, and beautiful."--Lee Smith

"Beautifully written..."--Seattle Times

"A harrowing tour de force that might be the most timely and dangerous novel released this fall... Rash has gone beyond any Southern gothic tale to weave a complex and riveting portrait in the tradition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez...brilliantly conceived."--Huffington Post

"From the moment she steps off the train, Serena Pemberton commands center stage in Ron Rash's rough-hewn tale of unchecked ambition. Universal in scope, frightening in its brutality, Serena is an unflinching vision of blighted souls played out against the backdrop of a nearly-lost Appalachia."--David Wroblewski, New York Times bestselling author of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

"This is a must-read novel."--About.com (Contemporary Literature)

"Ron Rash's new novel Serena catapults him to the front ranks of the best American novelists. This novel will make a wonderful movie, and the brave actress who plays Serena is a shoe-in for an Academy Award nomination."--Pat Conroy

"With bone-chilling aplomb, linguistic grace and the piercing fatalism of an Appalachian ballad, Mr. Rash lets the Pembertons' new union generate ripple after ripple of astonishment."--Janet Maslin, The New York Times

"From that arresting opening...the violence escalates along with the tension in this absorbing story about rapacious greed in Depression-era Appalachia...Thrilling stuff."--People

"Too hypnotic to break away from...And the final chapter is as flawless and captivating as anything I've read this year, a perfectly creepy shock that will leave you hearing nothing but the wind between the stumps."--Washington Post Book World

"A gorgeous, brutal writer."--Richard Price, bestselling author of LUSH LIFE

Book Description:

Now a major motion picture starring Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence and Rhys Ifans

About this edition

• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0061470848
• ISBN 13: 9780061470844
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400