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Burning bright stories

Captures the eerie beauty, stark violence, and rugged character of Appalachia in a collection of stories that spans the Civil War to the present day.

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  • "Captures the eerie beauty, stark violence, and rugged character of Appalachia in a collection of stories that spans the Civil War to the present day."@en
  • "Winner of the Frank O'Connor Award, these Appalachian stories are brought to life by characters who struggle through their lives, proud and tough. A farmer wonders what is stealing his eggs. A pawnshop owner trades on the stolen goods of meth addicts. A child sits in the remains of a crashed plane and lovingly tends to a pair of frozen corpses."@en
  • "Jacob and Edna have fallen on hard times. They haven't lost everything the way others have, but they have lost enough. When one of their hens stops laying eggs, it seems like the final straw. Jacob is determined to solve the mystery. What he discovers is as heartbreaking as it is revelatory. This is just one of the remarkable stories in Burning bright, an award-winning collection that confirms why Ron Rash has won comparisons with John Steinbeck, and Cormac McCarthy. It is rare that an author can capture the complexities of a place as though it were a person, as Ron Rash does with the rugged, brutal landscape of the Appalachian Mountains. At the same time, again and again he conjures characters that live long in the mind after their stories have been told."@en
  • "Bundel korte verhalen die zich afspelen rondom het Appalachengebergte in de Verenigde Staten."
  • "Burning Bright is a richly woven collection of short stories that melds the dark with the beautiful in deftly painted portraits of Appalachia, ranging from the Civil War to present day. The personalities that come alive in Ron Rash's storytelling find their downfalls in different ways. Tied together by a common thread, they are people in desperate situations, searching for a glimmer of happiness, whether real or a delusion. As each story unfolds, Rash quietly builds suspense to reveal harrowing realities and the raw emotions of human nature."

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Short stories"
  • "Short stories"@en
  • "Short stories, American"@en

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  • "Burning bright stories"@en
  • "Burning bright : stories"
  • "Burning bright : stories"@en
  • "Burning bright"@en
  • "Burning bright"
  • "Chi yan ran shao / Burning bright / Ron Rash"
  • "Burning Bright stories"
  • "炽焰燃烧 / Burning bright / Ron Rash"
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  • "Burning Bright"@en

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