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Ron Rash is the author of the PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and New York Times-bestselling novel Serena, in addition to the critically acclaimed novels The Risen, Above the Waterfall, The Cove, One Foot in Eden, Saints at the River and The World Made Straight; five collections of poems; and seven collections of stories, among them Burning Bright, which won the 2010 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, Nothing Gold Can Stay, a New York Times bestseller, and Chemistry and Other Stories, which was a finalist for the 2007 PEN/Faulkner Award. Three times the recipient of the O. Henry Prize and winner of the 2014 Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere, he teaches at Western Carolina University.www.ronrashwriter.com
With each Ron Rash story, you expect flawed people trying desperately to survive against the odds and a rich sense of place, and images that linger, and beautiful language that you catch yourself reading over and over. What you don't always expect is a wicked plot. The Caretaker delivers all of the above in a story that becomes a race to the finish -- JOHN GRISHAM Praise for Nothing Gold Can Stay: These stories are wonderful. They give me an ache in the heart and I have to sit and look out of my window and think over and over again -- ALICE MUNRO Perfect! So many brilliant stories, brilliantly written . . . all moving, witty -- CLAIRE FULLER Praise for Ron Rash: Ron Rash is a writer of both the darkly beautiful and the sadly true . . . One of our very finest novelists -- RICHARD RUSSO One of the great American authors at work today * * New York Times * * A riveting storyteller * * Washington Post * * Rash's evocative rendering of the blighted landscape and the tough characters who inhabit it recalls both John Steinbeck and Cormac McCarthy * * New Yorker * *
