Description:
Short stories of hardscrabble lives in the Carolina foothills, sharing anew the early fiction from an acclaimed storyteller
Brief description: Ron Rash is the John Parris Chair in Appalachian Studies at Western Carolina University and the author of six novels (most recently Above the Waterfall), four other collections of short stories, and four collections of poetry. Rash is the winner of the Frank O�Connor International Short Story Award, the Sherwood Anderson Prize, the James Still Award of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, the Weatherford Award for Best Novel, the Fiction Book of the Year Award of the Southern Book Critics Circle. He is a two-time finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Prize and twice winner of the O. Henry Prize.
Review Quotes:
A substantial contribution to recent southern fiction.
-- "Georgia Review"