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In the valley: stories and a novella based on Serena: Novella

✍ Scribed by Ron Rash

Book ID: 100372329
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year: 2020
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 131 KB
Edition: First edition
Category: Fiction
City: North Carolina
ISBN: 0525564225

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✦ Synopsis

From bestselling and award-winning writer Ron Rash ("One of the great American authors at work today." --The New York Times) comes a collection of twelve searing new stories and the return of the villainess who propelled Serenato national acclaim, in a long-awaited novella.
Ron Rash has long been a revered presence in the landscape of American letters. A virtuosic novelist, poet, and story writer, he evokes the beauty and brutality of the land, the relentless tension between past and present, and the unquenchable human desire to be a little bit better than circumstances would seem to allow (to paraphrase Faulkner).
In these twelve stories, Rash spins a haunting allegory of the times we live in--rampant capitalism, the severing of ties to the natural world in the relentless hunt for profit, the destruction of body and soul with pills meant to mute our pain--and yet within this world he illuminates acts of...

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Adult Fiction

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