Recensione:
"A writer's writer who writes for others" (Colum McCann)
"A gorgeous, brutal writer" (Richard Price)
"One of the great American authors at work today" (Janet Maslin New York Times)
"Ron 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" (Irish Times)
"Finds a narrow sweet spot between Raymond Carver and William Faulkner." (Washington Post)
"Rash's prose is elegant, suggestive, and Hardyesque." (Boston Globe)
"Combining suspense with acute observations and flashing insights, Rash tells a seductive and disquieting tale about our intrinsic attachment to and disastrous abuse of the land and our betrayal of our best selves" (Starred Booklist) --New York Times
"Alternates between traditional prose and a poetic voice" (Wall Street Journal) --Wall Street Journal
"The book begins as a lyrical, far-reaching reflection on nature and modern-day loneliness . . . Beneath the surface, the novel contemplates more timeless questions about human frailty, the divinity of nature and the legacies of our native landscapes . . . A hybrid of prose poetry, nature writing and literary mystery . . . Exhilarating and beguiling" (Atlanta Journal) --Atlanta Journal
L'autore:
Ron 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.
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