Chemistry and other stories / Ron Rash.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rash, Ron, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Appalachian Region--Fiction.

Appalachian Region.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

230 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Picador, 2007.

Summary:

A Picador Paperback Original From the pre-eminent chronicler of this forgotten territory, stories that range over one hundred years in the troubled, violent emergence of the New South. In Ron Rash's stories, spanning the entire twentieth century in Appalachia, rural communities struggle with the arrival of a new era. Three old men stalk the shadow of a giant fish no one else believes is there. A man takes up scuba diving in the town reservoir to fight off a killing depression. A grieving mother leads a surveyor into the woods to name once and for all the county where her son was murdered by thieves. In the Appalachia of Ron Rash's stories, the collision of the old and new south, of antique and modern, resonate with the depth and power of ancient myths.

Contents:

Their ancient, glittering eyes

Chemistry

Last rite

Blackberries in June

Not waving but drowning

Overtime

Cold harbor

Honesty

Dangerous love

The projectionist's wife

Deep gap

Pemberton's bride

Speckled trout.

ISBN:

9780312425081

0312425082

OCLC:

85897740

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