Burning Bright
- 16 Aug 2012
- 9780857861177
- £9.99
- 224 pp
- 129×198mm
- 18 Aug 2011
- 9780857861344
- £7.99
- 224 pp
In a few words
Winner of the 2010 Frank O’Connor Award, BURNING BRIGHT confirms Ron Rash ‘could sit comfortably beside Cormac McCarthy on any bookshelf’ (Guardian)
In a few words
Winner of the 2010 Frank O’Connor Award, BURNING BRIGHT confirms Ron Rash ‘could sit comfortably beside Cormac McCarthy on any bookshelf’ (Guardian)
The dozen stories [in Burning Bright]...have led to justifiable comparisons with Raymond Carver and Cormac McCarthy. ... These are tales that put you in another place, another kind of life. Recommended
Rash tells great stories, raw and powerful, but he is above all, an instinctive writer. These narratives, whether told in his laconic first person, or in a detached third-person voice, are well served by his flawless use of language. Every word carries meaning and intent . . . Rash possesses a realist's vision that resounds with truth
Technically absolutely beautiful - incredibly well-wrought...[Rash] is a real storyteller, a real craftsman.
Nadine O'regan
Judge of the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award and books editor of the Sunday Business PostOne of the best American novelists of his day.
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A FARMER and his wife fall on hard times. They haven’t lost everything the way others have, but they have lost enough. Their hope for a better future comes under threat when they discover an intruder on their land.
A WOMAN from a small town marries an outsider. Her love for him battles with her suspicions that he is the source of the fires ravaging the mountains.
A YOUNG BOY, neglected by his parents, sits in the remains of a crashed plane and lovingly tends to two frozen bodies.
These remarkable stories and many more can be found in Burning Bright, an award-winning collection that captures the complexities of a place and conjures characters that will burn bright in your mind long after you have finished reading.
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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, Cormac McCarthy and Gabriel García Márquez.
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.
Rash's prose is at once strong and supple, masculine and poetic, and lit up by a wealth of precise physical detail. ... His power of conveying landscape is exemplary, and he has a sure understanding of the measure and constraints of the short-story form
An exciting collection of short stories . . . delivered with such a surety of hand and such a considered distillation of the human spirit as to warrant the comparisons to Faulkner and Carver
Technically absolutely beautiful - incredibly well-wrought...[Rash] is a real storyteller, a real craftsman.
Nadine O'regan
Judge of the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award and books editor of the Sunday Business PostSuperb; the great American short story at its best
Rash's evocative rendering of the blighted landscape and the tough characters who inhabit it recalls both John Steinbeck and Cormac McCarthy.
Searing...A nicely varied feast from a master of the form.
A gorgeous, brutal writer
Richard Price
Could sit comfortably on any bookshelf beside Cormac McCarthy or Charles Frazier
Ron Rash
View profileRon Rash is an award-winning poet, short-story writer and novelist. He is the author of several story collections and novels, including Serena, a New York Times Bestseller, and The Cove, also published by Canongate. He lives in the Appalachian Mountains, USA.
Ron Rash
View profileRon Rash is the author of several story collections and novels, including Serena, also published by Canongate. He lives in the Appalachian Mountains, USA.
