Nothing Gold Can Stay: Stories - Softcover

Rash, Ron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062202723 ISBN 13: 9780062202727

Publisher: Ecco Press, 2014

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date :2014-03-11 Pages: 256 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins From Ron Rash. PEN Faulkner Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Serena. comes a new collection of unforgettable stories set in Appalachia that focuses on the lives of those haunted by violence and tenderness. hope and fear-spanning the Civil War to the present day. The darkness of Ron Rash's work contrasts with its unexpected sensitivity and stark beauty in a manner that could only be accomplished by this master of the short story form.Nothing Gold Can Stay includes 14 stories. including Rash's The Trusty. which first appeared in The New Yorker.

About this title

Review:

"Rash's short stories thematically paint Appalachia not as a definitive place but as a series of many interconnected ways of relating to human and environmental frailty. Another fine addition to the Rash bibliography, and a great entry point for the uninitiated reader."--Library Journal

"Ron Rash's fifth story collection, NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY, set in hardscrabble Appalachia, has a tone and temperament like that of his compatriot Eudora Welty, with a twist of Barry Hannah."--Elle

"A lovely, essential new collection of stories . . . lyrical and honest, grounded in place yet sweeping in scope. . . . .[Rash's] prose is elegant, suggestive, and Hardyesque."--Boston Globe

"Striking . . . engaging . . . mesmerizing . . . After finishing this collection, one simply just wants to read more of Ron Rash."--Minneapolis Star Tribune

"In his new collection of stories, Ron Rash stunningly renders his native Appalachia as an exotic planetoid governed by its own peculiar orbital laws . . . Rash is a fast-rising superstar in the North Carolina literary constellation that includes such luminaries as Michael Parker, Clyde Edgerton and Phillip Gerard."--Charlotte Observer

"[Rash's] starkly beautiful prose has mapped the heart and soul of southern Appalachia in a way few writers of his generation can match. . . A splendid new collection. . . shimmering, liquid poetry. . ."--Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"With NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY, Ron Rash cements his reputation as one of the foremost chroniclers of that mythic uber-America known as the South. . . At his best, Rash evokes an understated poignancy that is genuinely affecting. . .--Washington Post

"Masterfully crafted. The best of Rash's stories, written in a spare prose style, have an aching lyricism as they chronicle the hard times and hard fall of his characters. The best of the best will haunt the reader long after they're done."--Washington Independent Review of Books

"The stories of Nothing Gold Can Stay are tough-minded, surprising, illuminating even when Rash leaves much unsaid (often the reader comprehends more than the characters can). But no matter when they are set or who they concern, these stories are kin to each other."--Miami Herald

"Mesmerized by Ron Rash's new NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY. Short stories that play on for a long time in your mind."--Scott Simon, NPR

Book Description:

An extraordinary new collection from the winner of the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0062202723
• ISBN 13: 9780062202727
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256