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Serena
Ron Rash
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Description for Serena
Paperback. Lady Macbeth rewritten in this novel of passion and revenge set in the USA Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 26. Weight in Grams: 262. 384 pages. Lady Macbeth rewritten in this novel of passion and revenge set in the USA. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 197 x 133 x 26. Weight: 274.
George and Serena Pemberton arrive in the wilds of the North Carolina mountains to build a life together in a rural logging town. But Serena Pemberton is unlike any woman this town has ever seen: overseeing crews, hunting rattlesnakes and even saving her husband in the wilderness. So when Serena learns that she will never bear a child, she is determined that her intensely passionate marriage will not unravel. A course of events unfolds that will change the lives of everyone in their rural community and bring this riveting tale of love and revenge to its shocking reckoning.
George and Serena Pemberton arrive in the wilds of the North Carolina mountains to build a life together in a rural logging town. But Serena Pemberton is unlike any woman this town has ever seen: overseeing crews, hunting rattlesnakes and even saving her husband in the wilderness. So when Serena learns that she will never bear a child, she is determined that her intensely passionate marriage will not unravel. A course of events unfolds that will change the lives of everyone in their rural community and bring this riveting tale of love and revenge to its shocking reckoning.
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847674883
SKU
V9781847674883
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99-98
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 Burning Bright and The Cove. He lives in the Appalachian Mountains, USA.
Reviews for Serena
A bloody - and bloody brilliant - story of passion and revenge. Terrific
The Times
Bitter and brilliant . . . it could sit comfortably on any bookshelf beside Cormac McCarthy or Charles Frazier . . . the plot moves with precision, beautifully wrought. The author's acute sense of place is evident on every page
Guardian
A stunningly effective novel that is stark, fierce, dramatic and gripping from its unforgettable opening paragraph
Janet Maslin
New York Times, Top Ten Books of 2008
It's too hypnotic to break away from. Innocent people are in peril, and calamity seems as unstoppable . . . The final chapter is as flawless and captivating as anything I've read this year
Washington Post
Rash's evocative rendering of the blighted landscape and the tough characters who inhabit it recalls both John Steinbeck and Cormac McCarthy, while the malignant character of Serena, who projects a "stark unflinching certainty" about her actions, propels his finely paced story
New Yorker
If Serena becomes famous as the basis for a coming Jennifer Lawrence-Bradley Cooper movie, never forget that it began as a fierce, breathtaking book, one of the greatest American novels in recent memory
New York Times
In an age when literary fiction is so intent on subtlety that it often winds up virtually inert, a novel with this much uncomplicated gusto and narrative drive is a rare thing; in the case of Serena, it's also a welcome one
Salon
A searing tragedy of Shakespearean proportions - or, in simpler terms, a damn good book that will keep you awake far too late and, well after you've finished it, haunt your dreams
Julia Glass, author of THREE JUNES A gorgeous, brutal novel
Richard Price, author of LUSH LIFE
The Times
Bitter and brilliant . . . it could sit comfortably on any bookshelf beside Cormac McCarthy or Charles Frazier . . . the plot moves with precision, beautifully wrought. The author's acute sense of place is evident on every page
Guardian
A stunningly effective novel that is stark, fierce, dramatic and gripping from its unforgettable opening paragraph
Janet Maslin
New York Times, Top Ten Books of 2008
It's too hypnotic to break away from. Innocent people are in peril, and calamity seems as unstoppable . . . The final chapter is as flawless and captivating as anything I've read this year
Washington Post
Rash's evocative rendering of the blighted landscape and the tough characters who inhabit it recalls both John Steinbeck and Cormac McCarthy, while the malignant character of Serena, who projects a "stark unflinching certainty" about her actions, propels his finely paced story
New Yorker
If Serena becomes famous as the basis for a coming Jennifer Lawrence-Bradley Cooper movie, never forget that it began as a fierce, breathtaking book, one of the greatest American novels in recent memory
New York Times
In an age when literary fiction is so intent on subtlety that it often winds up virtually inert, a novel with this much uncomplicated gusto and narrative drive is a rare thing; in the case of Serena, it's also a welcome one
Salon
A searing tragedy of Shakespearean proportions - or, in simpler terms, a damn good book that will keep you awake far too late and, well after you've finished it, haunt your dreams
Julia Glass, author of THREE JUNES A gorgeous, brutal novel
Richard Price, author of LUSH LIFE