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Burning Bright
Ron Rash
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Description for Burning Bright
Paperback. Winner of the 2010 Frank O'Connor Award, BURNING BRIGHT confirms Ron Rash 'could sit comfortably beside Cormac McCarthy on any bookshelf' (Guardian) Num Pages: 224 pages, ill. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 197 x 14. Weight in Grams: 158. 224 pages, ill. Winner of the 2010 Frank O'Connor Award, BURNING BRIGHT confirms Ron Rash 'could sit comfortably beside Cormac McCarthy on any bookshelf' (Guardian). Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FYB. Dimension: 139 x 197 x 14. Weight: 158.
A FARMER and his wife fall on hard times. They haven't lost everything the way others have, but they have lost enough. Their hope for a better future comes under threat when they discover an intruder on their land.
A WOMAN from a small town marries an outsider. Her love for him battles with her suspicions that he is the source of the fires ravaging the mountains.
A YOUNG BOY, neglected by his parents, sits in the remains of a crashed plane and lovingly tends to two frozen bodies.
These remarkable stories and many more can be found in Burning Bright, an award-winning collection that captures the complexities of a place and conjures characters that will burn bright in your mind long after you have finished reading.
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857861177
SKU
V9780857861177
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-69
About Ron Rash
Ron Rash is an award-winning poet, short-story writer and novelist. He is the author of several story collections and novels, including Serena, a New York Times Bestseller, and The Cove, also published by Canongate. He lives in the Appalachian Mountains, USA.
Reviews for Burning Bright
The dozen stories [in Burning Bright]...have led to justifiable comparisons with Raymond Carver and Cormac McCarthy. ... These are tales that put you in another place, another kind of life. Recommended
Daily Mail
Rash tells great stories, raw and powerful, but he is above all, an instinctive writer. These narratives, whether told in his laconic first person, or in a detached third-person voice, are well served by his flawless use of language. Every word carries meaning and intent . . . Rash possesses a realist's vision that resounds with truth
Irish Times
Rash's prose is at once strong and supple, masculine and poetic, and lit up by a wealth of precise physical detail. ... His power of conveying landscape is exemplary, and he has a sure understanding of the measure and constraints of the short-story form
Sunday Times
An exciting collection of short stories . . . delivered with such a surety of hand and such a considered distillation of the human spirit as to warrant the comparisons to Faulkner and Carver
Independent on Sunday
Technically absolutely beautiful - incredibly well-wrought...[Rash] is a real storyteller, a real craftsman.
Nadine O'Regan
Judge of the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award and books editor of the Sunday Business Post
Superb; the great American short story at its best
The Times
Searing...A nicely varied feast from a master of the form.
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Rash's evocative rendering of the blighted landscape and the tough characters who inhabit it recalls both John Steinbeck and Cormac McCarthy.
New Yorker on SERENA
Could sit comfortably on any bookshelf beside Cormac McCarthy or Charles Frazier
Guardian on SERENA
What superb stories come from Ron Rash's pen, the kind that truly put all others in the shade. His stories buck the trend for "moments" in a life that go unexplained: Rash wants you to understand, urgently and fully, what has taken place
Lesley McDowall
Independent on Sunday
Daily Mail
Rash tells great stories, raw and powerful, but he is above all, an instinctive writer. These narratives, whether told in his laconic first person, or in a detached third-person voice, are well served by his flawless use of language. Every word carries meaning and intent . . . Rash possesses a realist's vision that resounds with truth
Irish Times
Rash's prose is at once strong and supple, masculine and poetic, and lit up by a wealth of precise physical detail. ... His power of conveying landscape is exemplary, and he has a sure understanding of the measure and constraints of the short-story form
Sunday Times
An exciting collection of short stories . . . delivered with such a surety of hand and such a considered distillation of the human spirit as to warrant the comparisons to Faulkner and Carver
Independent on Sunday
Technically absolutely beautiful - incredibly well-wrought...[Rash] is a real storyteller, a real craftsman.
Nadine O'Regan
Judge of the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award and books editor of the Sunday Business Post
Superb; the great American short story at its best
The Times
Searing...A nicely varied feast from a master of the form.
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Rash's evocative rendering of the blighted landscape and the tough characters who inhabit it recalls both John Steinbeck and Cormac McCarthy.
New Yorker on SERENA
Could sit comfortably on any bookshelf beside Cormac McCarthy or Charles Frazier
Guardian on SERENA
What superb stories come from Ron Rash's pen, the kind that truly put all others in the shade. His stories buck the trend for "moments" in a life that go unexplained: Rash wants you to understand, urgently and fully, what has taken place
Lesley McDowall
Independent on Sunday