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Sto caricando le informazioni... In the Valley: Stories and a Novella Based on SERENA (2020)di Ron Rash
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Ron Rash is the literary authority of the eastern Appalachians - the land and its human and animal inhabitants. His novels and stories are profoundly rooted in sympathy for the people of the hollers and his eyes can really see both the decency and the fault lines. Comeuppance is a major theme here, sometimes in almost O. Henry fashion. These nine stories go down very easily - short, spare, not a word to waste as they meander from Civil War days to current times. My favorite story was When The Stars Fall, where a father is forced to acknowledge and separate from a son who came up wrong. The Serena sequel returns to his most memorable character (ignore the movie) and adds to the brutal reputation of this poisonous female robber baron, clearcutter, and murderer, and you sense that Rash is not finished with her yet. ( ) Rash in one of my top five contemporary Southern authors. I have read and enjoyed, to varying degrees, his fiction, but I believe his forte, area of expertise is in short story format. In these stories, most feature a woman taking charge of her own destiny. Some are gritty, some dark, but I actually liked them all. I did of course, have a few favorites. The first goes back to the Civil War and is titled, Neighbors. Has a surprise twist but also features a woman who must use her wits to save herself and her children. The second favorite is titled, Baptism and could be named, Revenge us best when served cold. Again, women win the day. The third is, Ransom and is one of the only onesthat features a man trying to get his form of justice. It does include a woman though and his another with a twisty ending. Then we have the novella in which the indominable and evil Serena returns with her evil henchman, Galloway. Slow to start, but I loved it and the justice that plays out. If you haven't read the book, this does well as a standalone. Probably the most gritty in the book. He is truly, imo, a true talent. ARC from Edelweiss nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"From bestselling and award-winning writer Ron Rash ("One of the great American authors at work today."--The New York Times) comes a collection of ten searing stories and the return of the villainess who propelled Serena to national acclaim, in a long-awaited novella. Ron Rash has long been a revered presence in the landscape of American letters. A virtuosic novelist, poet, and story writer, he evokes the beauty and brutality of the land, the relentless tension between past and present, and the unquenchable human desire to be a little bit better than circumstances would seem to allow (to paraphrase Faulkner). In these ten stories, Rash spins a haunting allegory of the times we live in--rampant capitalism, the severing of ties to the natural world in the relentless hunt for profit, the destruction of body and soul with pills meant to mute our pain--and yet within this world he illuminates acts of extraordinary decency and heroism. Two of the stories have already been singled out for accolades: "Baptism" was chosen by Roxane Gay for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories 2018, and "Neighbors" was selected by Jonathan Lethem for The Best American Mystery Stories 2019. And in revisiting Serena Pemberton, Rash updates his bestselling parable of greed run amok as his deliciously vindictive heroine returns to the North Carolina wilderness she left scarred and desecrated to make one final effort to kill the child that threatens all she has accomplished. "A gorgeous, brutal writer" (Richard Price) working at the height of his powers, Ron Rash has created another mesmerizing look at the imperfect world around us"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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