Above the Waterfall
- 2 Mar 2017
- 9781782118015
- £9.99
- 272 pp
- 129×198mm
- 18 Aug 2016
- 9781782118008
- £7.99
- 272 pp
In a few words
From the New York Times bestseller comes a haunting novel with the poetic quality of William Faulkner
In a few words
From New York Times bestselling author Ron Rash comes a haunting novel with the poetic quality of William Faulkner
A writer's writer who writes for others
Colum Mccann
A gorgeous, brutal writer
Richard Price
A persuasive, revealing writer of exquisite sentences . . . poised on the cusp of becoming a household name. Comparisons have been made to William Faulkner's southern Gothic and Ernest Hemingway's brevity, but the voice of this Appalachian writer is singular, often quiet and frequently uncompromising
Rash is an enormously gifted storyteller . . . one of the few writers at work today with the insight, the talent and the vision to show us how sometimes, for all our sorry shortcomings, we're able to achieve a certain redemption through our capacity for kindness and decency
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Nothing else comes so I set the notebook beside me. What else is here? I ask myself and listen. This section of stream purls and riffles amid small stones. What word might be made for what I hear . . .
Les Clary’s final case has broken the still surface of his backwater town.
Becky, a park ranger with her own mysterious past, shares Les’s consolation in the natural world that lies just beyond their hopelessly broken town. As Les and Becky explore of the county’s lyrically beautiful landscape, they finds themselves led deeper into the heart of the town’s corruption, and into the darkness of their own ruptured histories.
This haunting novel is a poetic journey into the wilderness of the heart.
More about
the book
Nothing else comes so I set the notebook beside me. What else is here? I ask myself and listen. This section of stream purls and riffles amid small stones. What word might be made for what I hear . . .
Les Clary’s final case has broken the still surface of his backwater town.
Becky, a park ranger with her own mysterious past, shares Les’s consolation in the natural world that lies just beyond their hopelessly broken town. As Les and Becky explore of the county’s lyrically beautiful landscape, they finds themselves led deeper into the heart of the town’s corruption, and into the darkness of their own ruptured histories.
This haunting novel is a poetic journey into the wilderness of the heart.
One of the great American authors at work today
Janet Maslin
New York TimesRon Rash is a writer of both the darkly beautiful and the sadly true . . . One of our very finest novelists
Richard Russo
Magnificent is suddenly too small a word
Finds a narrow sweet spot between Raymond Carver and William Faulkner.
A writer's writer who writes for others
Colum Mccann
One of the great American authors at work today
Janet Maslin
New York TimesAbove the Waterfall succeeds on every level. As a satisfying crime story it absolutely delivers. As a meditation on the changing nature of our relationship with landscape, it is sublime. A masterclass of precise and evocative writing . . . powerful and compelling
A gorgeous, brutal writer
Richard Price
Ron Rash
View profileRon Rash is an award-winning poet, short-story writer and novelist. His novels include The Cove, The World Made Straight and New York Times bestseller and 2009 PEN/Faulkner finalist, Serena, now a major motion picture. He is also the author of several short story collections including Nothing Gold Can Stay, Burning Bright, winner of the 2010 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, and Chemistry and Other Stories, a finalist for the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award. He lives in the Appalachian Mountains, USA.
Ron Rash
View profileRon Rash is an award-winning poet, short-story writer and novelist. His novels include The Cove, The World Made Straight and New York Times bestseller and 2009 PEN/Faulkner finalist, Serena, now a major motion picture. He is also the author of several short story collections including Nothing Gold Can Stay, Burning Bright, winner of the 2010 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, and Chemistry and Other Stories, a finalist for the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award. He lives in the Appalachian Mountains, USA.
