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PublisherPicador

ISBN-100312425082

ISBN-139780312425081

eBay Product ID (ePID)57104200

Product Key Features

Book TitleChemistry and Other Stories

Number of Pages240 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2007

TopicShort Stories (Single Author)

GenreFiction

AuthorRon Rash

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight7.8 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2007-013086

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"Rash, a poet and novelist ( The World Made Straight, 2006) steeped in Appalachia, offers 13 haunting and picturesque stories that illuminate the terms of survival in that often forgotten landscape." - Booklist, Praise for Ron Rash: "A major Southern writer . . .The World Made Straightreminds us of the sort of compelling literature a brave artist can fashion from the shards of such experience."--Los Angeles Times "Captivating . . . His clear, concise prose and regional voice add an authentic veneer to this rich tableau of Southern life."--Entertainment WeeklyonSaints at the River "Ron Rash writes like a prince."--Pat Conroy, Praise for Ron Rash: "A major Southern writer . . . The World Made Straight reminds us of the sort of compelling literature a brave artist can fashion from the shards of such experience."-- Los Angeles Times "Captivating . . . His clear, concise prose and regional voice add an authentic veneer to this rich tableau of Southern life."-- Entertainment Weekly on Saints at the River "Ron Rash writes like a prince."--Pat Conroy

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisChemistry and Other Stories , A Picador Paperback Original From the pre-eminent chronicler of this forgotten territory, stories that range over one hundred years in the troubled, violent emergence of the New South. In Ron Rash's stories, spanning the entire twentieth century in Appalachia, rural communities struggle with the arrival of a new era. Three old men stalk the shadow of a giant fish no one else believes is there. A man takes up scuba diving in the town reservoir to fight off a killing depression. A grieving mother leads a surveyor into the woods to name once and for all the county where her son was murdered by thieves. In the Appalachia of Ron Rash's stories, the collision of the old and new south, of antique and modern, resonate with the depth and power of ancient myths., In Rash's stories, spanning the entire 20th century in Appalachia, rural communities struggle with the arrival of a new era where the collision of the old and new south, of antique and modern, resonate with the depth and power of ancient myths.

LC Classification NumberPS3568.A698