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 ... Read moreexcitingly 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

Remarkable . . . Mr Rash certainly knows how to rivet attention

New York Times

Technically absolutely beautiful - incredibly well-wrought . . . Ron Rash is a real storyteller
Nadine O'Regan, judge of the Frank O'Connor Award, on BURNING BRIGHT Could sit comfortably on any bookshelf beside Cormac McCarthy and Charles Frazier

The Guardian on SERENA

These are tales that put you in another place, another kind of life

Daily Mail on BURNING BRIGHT

Another fine collection from Ron Rash . . . his oneness with the region and its people makes an indelible impression

Kirkus Reviews

All I need to write here is read this book. Read everything he has written. Scoop up all his books, secrete yourself in a quiet room, and then emerge pale, shaken and amazed

The Puffin Review

Rash impresses with clear-eyed, sympathetic writing about flawed and troubled characters

Publishers Weekly

They are beautiful, moving stories. Rash's prose is so clear, so controlled that he manages to convey huge amounts about character, situation and motivations in just a few perfect words
Doug Johnstone

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