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Above the Waterfall
Ron Rash
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Description for Above the Waterfall
Paperback. From the New York Times bestseller comes a haunting novel with the poetic quality of William Faulkner Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 24. Weight in Grams: 216.
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 . . . Les Clary's final case has broken the still surface of his backwater town. Becky, a park ranger with her own mysterious past, shares Les's consolation in the natural world that lies just beyond their hopelessly broken town. As Les and Becky explore of the county's lyrically beautiful landscape, they finds themselves led deeper into the heart of the town's corruption, and into the darkness of their own ruptured histories. This haunting novel is a poetic journey into the wilderness of the heart.
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782118015
SKU
V9781782118015
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-65
About Ron Rash
Ron Rash is an award-winning poet, short-story writer and novelist. His novels include The Cove, The World Made Straight and New York Times bestseller and 2009 PEN/Faulkner finalist, Serena, now a major motion picture. He is also the author of several short story collections including Nothing Gold Can Stay, Burning Bright, winner of the 2010 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, and Chemistry and Other Stories, a finalist for the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award. He lives in the Appalachian Mountains, USA.
Reviews for Above the Waterfall
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
Alternates between traditional prose and a poetic voice
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
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
Alternates between traditional prose and a poetic voice
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