Nothing Gold Can Stay

Resumen del libro

New York Times Bestseller

The PEN/Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestselling author returns to the the emotional terrain of Appalachia to limn lives haunted by violence and tenderness, hope and fear in a collection of unforgettable stories that span the Civil War to the present day

"These stories are wonderful. They give me an ache in the heart and I have to sit and look out my window and think over and over again."-Alice Munro

" Rash's starkly beautiful prose has mapped the heart and soul of southern Appalachia in a way few writers of his generation can match. . . splendid . . . shimmering, liquid poetry. "-Atlanta Journal-Constitution

In the title story, two drug addicted friends return to the farm where they worked as boys to steal their boss's unusual but valuable war trophies. In "The Trusty," Ron Rash's first story to appear in The New Yorker, a prisoner sent to fetch water for the chain gang tries to sweet talk a farmer's young wife into helping him escape, only to find she is as trapped as he is. In "Something Rich and Strange," a diver is called upon to pull a drowned girl's body free from under a falls, but finds her eerily at peace below the surface. The violence of Rash's characters and their raw settings are matched only by their unexpected tenderness and stark beauty, a masterful combination that has earned Ron Rash an avalanche of praise.

"Crime, with its violence, threads through the butcher's-dozen of stories in the masterly Nothing Gold Can Stay, as inexorably as it winds through the problematic lives of his Appalachian-dwelling characters."-Wall Street Journal

"Striking . . . engaging . . . mesmerizing . . . After finishing this collection, one simply just wants to read more of Ron Rash."-Minneapolis Star Tribune

Biografía del autor

Ron Rash (1953, Chester, Carolina del Sur) imparte clases en la Western Carolina University y es autor de cuatro libros de poemas, seis colecciones de relatos y siete novelas. Escritor de enorme prestigio en su país, donde se ha convertido ya en un clásico moderno de la literatura sureña, ha visto su obra traducida a varios idiomas y laureada con numerosos premios y distinciones. Publicada originalmente en 2002, Un pie en el paraíso fue su ya mítica primera incursión en la narrativa de largo aliento.