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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 * *

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 * *

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 * *

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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

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