RON RASH—Brilliant Southern Gothic With SERENA

Ron Rash, or "Nancy's adopted son," as he's known here, returns with the paperback release of SERENA. In this 2009 SIBA Winner for Fiction, and the O.Henry Prize winner, Rash has produced a riveting, epic tale of greed, blood lust, and revenge. You'll never forget Serena.

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Serena (Paperback)

By Ron Rash

$14.99

ISBN-13: 9780061470844
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Published: Ecco, 10/2009

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The year is 1929, and newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton travel from Boston to the North Carolina mountains where they plan to create a timber empire. Although George has already lived in the camp long enough to father an illegitimate child, Serena is new to the mountains--but she soon shows herself to be the equal of any man, overseeing crews, hunting rattle-snakes, even saving her husband's life in the wilderness. Together this lord and lady of the woodlands ruthlessly kill or vanquish all who fall out of favor. Yet when Serena learns that she will never bear a child, she sets out to murder the son George fathered without her. Mother and child begin a struggle for their lives, and when Serena suspects George is protecting his illegitimate family, the Pembertons' intense, passionate marriage starts to unravel as the story moves toward its shocking reckoning. Rash's masterful balance of violence and beauty yields a riveting novel that, at its core, tells of love both honored and betrayed.

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One Foot in Eden (Paperback)

By Ron Rash

$14.00

ISBN-13: 9780312423056
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Published: Picador, 1/2004

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Will Alexander is the sheriff in a small town in southern Appalachia, and he knows that the local thug Holland Winchester has been murdered. The only thing is the sheriff can find neither the body nor someone to attest to the killing. Simply, almost elementally told through the voices of the sheriff, a local farmer, his beautiful wife, their son, and the sheriff's deputy, ONE FOOT IN EDEN signals the bellwether arrival of one the most mature and distinctive voices in southern literature.

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Saints at the River (Paperback)

By Ron Rash

$15.00

ISBN-13: 9780312424916
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Published: Picador, 7/2005

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When a twelve-year-old girl drowns in the Tamassee River and her body is trapped in a deep eddy, the people of the small South Carolina town that bears the river's name are thrown into the national spotlight. The girl's parents want to attempt a rescue of the body; environmentalists are convinced the rescue operation will cause permanent damage to the river and set a dangerous precedent. Torn between the two sides is Maggie Glenn, a twenty-eight-year-old newspaper photographer who grew up in the town and has been sent to document the incident. Since leaving home almost ten years ago, Maggie has done her best to avoid her father, but now, as the town's conflict opens old wounds, she finds herself revisiting the past she's fought so hard to leave behind.

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