Burning Bright
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780594044512 (0594044510)
Publish date: March 9th 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 205
Edition language: English
I had read one of Ron Rash's other short story collections, and I started this one without reading anything about it, that's how much I enjoyed the other book I had read. After the first "chapter" they story didn't seem to flow, and I realized it was another collection of short stories. The first ...
Tight stories set in the rural poverty of Appalachia, capturing the voices, the despair, the apathy and the weak struggles to overcome.
Rash’s fourth book of short stories returns us to his Appalachia, covering a wide swath of time, from the Civil War to the present day. Rash has a gift for story-telling and the dozen tales here will do no harm to his sterling reputation. His characters tend to be at the lower end of the socio-econo...