Books by Ron Rash
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review 1: Ron Rash is already a popular writer, especially in the South, so I don't know that I have much to add: his writing is well-crafted, his stories involve interesting characters, his plots are original and often hinge around Southern culture and way of thinking. My favorite story ...
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review 1: One of the features of Ron Rash's writing that sets him apart is his sense of place. The collection, "Burning Bright" is no exception. The stories range in time period from the civil war to the present day rural meth epidemic. In Rash's writing there is human time and there is th...
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review 1: I always love to read a book that's written by a southern author that is so engaging as this one it was a true development of how evil can go for years before being punished but it always does. I also learned a lot about how the timber industry destroyed the landscape in the No...
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review 1: It took me a single day - not even 24 hours - to finish this book. I thoroughly recommend it for its ability to draw the reader into a completely different world that existed in the hills of North Carolina only 100 years ago... It's an engrossing story of a sad place, with a sa...
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review 1: Rash's collection got my attention from the first story "Hard Times" that depicts the despair of neighbors eking out a bare existence. The often bleak Appalachian setting is as much a character as any of the characters in the stories, peopled with a late night DJ hiding a disfig...