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Nothing Gold Can Stay
Ron Rash
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Description for Nothing Gold Can Stay
Paperback. Set deep in the heart of the Appalachian mountains. This title transports the reader to another place, and illuminates the world around us in unexpected ways. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 178. 256 pages. Set deep in the heart of the Appalachian mountains. This title transports the reader to another place, and illuminates the world around us in unexpected ways. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight: 178.
Ron Rash has been acclaimed as 'the best American novelist I have come upon in the last twenty years' (Scotsman), a writer with an 'exceptional quality of characterisation and storytelling' (Irvine Welsh). Set deep in the heart of the Appalachian mountains, this new collection of short stories confirms his reputation again and again. Nothing Gold Can Stay transports the reader to another place, and illuminates the world around us in unexpected ways.
Ron Rash has been acclaimed as 'the best American novelist I have come upon in the last twenty years' (Scotsman), a writer with an 'exceptional quality of characterisation and storytelling' (Irvine Welsh). Set deep in the heart of the Appalachian mountains, this new collection of short stories confirms his reputation again and again. Nothing Gold Can Stay transports the reader to another place, and illuminates the world around us in unexpected ways.
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857869364
SKU
V9780857869364
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About Ron Rash
Ron Rash is an award-winning poet, short-story writer and novelist. He is the author of several short story collections and novels, including Serena a New York Times bestseller. He lives in the Appalachian Mountains, USA.
Reviews for Nothing Gold Can Stay
Rash can create a character in a single sentence; this is the great American short story at its best
The Times
Rash's prose is at once strong and supple, masculine and poetic, and lit up by a wealth of precise detail
Sunday Times
Nothing Gold Can Stay is excitingly versatile, covering time periods from the Civil War to the present and ranging in mood from wryly comic to brutal. The 14 stories are united by clean, tough specificity, courtly backwoods diction, and a capacity for sending shivers
New York Times
All these stories speak about relationships, and at their heart is often the desire for something better, something more. Rash's unforgettable, beautifully crafted, sure and strong stories tap into whan human beings want from each other, and want from the world
Lesley McDowell
Independent on Sunday
Nothing Gold Can Stay is excitingly versatile, covering periods in time from the American Civil War to the present day, and ranging in mood from wryly comic to brutal. The 14 stories are united by clean, tough specificity, courtly backwoods diction, and a capacity for sending shivers down the spine... Nothing Gold Can Stay contains more fine stories than can be done justice here
Janet Maslin
The Scotsman
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
Burning Bright netted Ron Rash the 2010 Frank O'Connor Short Story Award and earned him comparisons to Raymond Carver, John Steinbeck, William Trevor and Cormac McCarthy . . . If you haven't read Ron Rash yet, you have a treat in store
Irish Times
A collection of short stories about Appalachia that are actually more like diamonds: cold, glittering, valuable
New York Magazine
There's a powerful certainty that these short stories at least - the finest by a very fine writer - will stay with you for a long time to come
Washington Independent Review of Books
Nothing Gold Can Stay is lyrical and honest, grounded in place yet sweeping in scope
Boston Globe
The Times
Rash's prose is at once strong and supple, masculine and poetic, and lit up by a wealth of precise detail
Sunday Times
Nothing Gold Can Stay is excitingly versatile, covering time periods from the Civil War to the present and ranging in mood from wryly comic to brutal. The 14 stories are united by clean, tough specificity, courtly backwoods diction, and a capacity for sending shivers
New York Times
All these stories speak about relationships, and at their heart is often the desire for something better, something more. Rash's unforgettable, beautifully crafted, sure and strong stories tap into whan human beings want from each other, and want from the world
Lesley McDowell
Independent on Sunday
Nothing Gold Can Stay is excitingly versatile, covering periods in time from the American Civil War to the present day, and ranging in mood from wryly comic to brutal. The 14 stories are united by clean, tough specificity, courtly backwoods diction, and a capacity for sending shivers down the spine... Nothing Gold Can Stay contains more fine stories than can be done justice here
Janet Maslin
The Scotsman
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
Burning Bright netted Ron Rash the 2010 Frank O'Connor Short Story Award and earned him comparisons to Raymond Carver, John Steinbeck, William Trevor and Cormac McCarthy . . . If you haven't read Ron Rash yet, you have a treat in store
Irish Times
A collection of short stories about Appalachia that are actually more like diamonds: cold, glittering, valuable
New York Magazine
There's a powerful certainty that these short stories at least - the finest by a very fine writer - will stay with you for a long time to come
Washington Independent Review of Books
Nothing Gold Can Stay is lyrical and honest, grounded in place yet sweeping in scope
Boston Globe