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  • ISBN: 0062202715
  • Category: Fiction
  • Author: Ron Rash
  • Subcategory: Short Stories & Anthologies
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  • Language: English
  • Publisher: Ecco; First Edition edition (February 19, 2013)
  • Pages: 256 pages
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  • Rating: 4.4
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Nothing gold can stay. Nothing Gold Can Stay. Something Rich and Strange.

Nothing gold can stay. PART II. A Servant of History.

Nothing Gold Can Stay book. The darkness of Ron Rash’s work contrasts with its unexpected sensitivity and stark bea From Ron Rash, PEN, Faulkner Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Serena, comes a new collection of unforgettable stories set in Appalachia that focuses on the lives of those haunted by violence and tenderness, hope and fear-spanning the Civil War to the present day.

Ron Rash’s fifth story collection, NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY, set in hardscrabble Appalachia, has a tone . Nothing Gold Can Stay is a collection of 14 short stories by Ron Rash, a professor at Western Carolina University.

Ron Rash’s fifth story collection, NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY, set in hardscrabble Appalachia, has a tone and temperament like that of his compatriot Eudora Welty, with a twist of Barry Hannah. A lovely, essential new collection of stories. lyrical and honest, grounded in place yet sweeping in scope. The stories are all set across various parts of western North Carolina - from the city of Asheville to the small foothills town of Lattimore; and take place across a wide swath of time periods. From Ron Rash, PEN, Faulkner Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Serena, comes a new collection of unforgettable stories set in Appalachia that focuses on the lives of those haunted by violence and tenderness, hope and fear-spanning the Civil War to the present day. The darkness of Ron Rash’s work contrasts with its unexpected sensitivity and stark beauty in a manner that could only be accomplished by this master of the short story form. Nothing Gold Can Stay includes 14 stories, including Rash’s The Trusty, which first appeared.

Nothing Gold Can Stay: Stories. Nothing Gold Can Stay - Ron Rash. Nothing Gold Can Stay includes 14 stories, including Rash’s The Trusty, which first appeared in The New Yorker. Read on the Scribd mobile app. Download the free Scribd mobile app to read anytime, anywhere.

Ron Rash’s new short story collection, Nothing Gold Can Stay, is this Appalachian author’s best book since his 2008 Serena. If Serena becomes famous as the basis for a coming Jennifer Lawrence-Bradley Cooper movie, never forget that it began as a fierce, breathtaking book, one of the greatest American novels in recent memory. Serena, set during the Depression, is a period piece, the kind of fiction for which Mr. Rash is best known. Books by same authors: Something Rich And Strange: Selected Stories.

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Ron Rash’s Nothing Gold Can Stay is best book since Serena. The stories of Nothing Gold Can Stay are tough-minded, surprising, illuminating even when Rash leaves much unsaid (often the reader comprehends more than the characters can)

Ron Rash’s Nothing Gold Can Stay is best book since Serena. Excitingly versatile. The stories are united by clean, tough specificity, courtly backwoods diction, and a capacity for sending shivers. The stories of Nothing Gold Can Stay are tough-minded, surprising, illuminating even when Rash leaves much unsaid (often the reader comprehends more than the characters can). But no matter when they are set or who they concern, these stories are kin to each other. Mesmerized by Ron Rash’s new NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY. Short stories that play on for a long time in your mind.

Опубликовано: 17 сент. 2019 г.

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nothing Gold Can Stay. 2 5 Author: Ron Rash Narrator: William Roberts. Ron Rash has been acclaimed as 'the best American novelist I have come upon in the last twenty years' by The Scotsman. Nothing Gold Can Stay transports the reader to another place, and illuminates the world around us in unexpected ways.

From Ron Rash, PEN / Faulkner Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Serena, comes a new collection of unforgettable stories set in Appalachia that focuses on the lives of those haunted by violence and tenderness, hope and fear—spanning the Civil War to the present day. 

The darkness of Ron Rash’s work contrasts with its unexpected sensitivity and stark beauty in a manner that could only be accomplished by this master of the short story form.

Nothing Gold Can Stay includes 14 stories, including Rash’s “The Trusty,” which first appeared in The New Yorker.


Reviews about Nothing Gold Can Stay: Stories (7):
Macill
I enjoyed each and every one of these stories. Ron Rash has a way with words and his stories are interesting, intriguing and often surprising.

In The Trusty, a prisoner gets loose and with the help of a woman he sees his way to freedom only to have things turn on him in the end.

In Cherokee, Danny goes to a casino hoping to win enough money to pay off his debt. He and his wife check in to the hotel and Danny carefully plays the slot machines.

A man who considers himself a 'Servant of History' looks into the etiology of songs. His search for these beginnings ends up turning around and harming him.

Those Who Are Dead Are Only Now Forgiven was one of my favorite stories in the collection. A college student is in love with Lauren who has turned into a meth-head. He tries to free her from her addiction but ends up giving himself to her and her demons.

The Dowry is another of my favorites. A family is totally against the marriage of their daughter and is about to kill her fiance when a pastor steps in to make things right and evens up the score.

All of the stories have panache and I read them aloud to my husband as we were driving. It was great to hear the words spoken and to share the book with someone else. It is a welcome addition to Rash's repertoire of works and I plan to read his other short stories soon. For those of you who enjoyed 'Serena', these stories will not be disappointing.
Ndyardin
Nothing Gold Can Stay is a collection of 14 short stories by Ron Rash, a professor at Western Carolina University. The stories are all set across various parts of western North Carolina -- from the city of Asheville to the small foothills town of Lattimore; and take place across a wide swath of time periods. Rash does an excellent job of capturing the culture and people of western NC in his writing. In fact, one of the more impressive parts of the work is how accurately he captures life in the area with attention to detail across the various time periods he visits. Although each story is short, Rash is excellent at pulling the reader in and getting them to understand and care about the main characters -- even if they aren't the best of people. While the stories are all good and entertaining, they often end in a way that leaves the reader wanting more. While a short story is just a small snippet of a character's life, some of these offerings feel like an incomplete snippet. In addition, it is a bit frustrating to see the depressing angle in many of the stories. In several instances, the reader is left hoping that the character will make the right decision, while ultimately realizing they'll choose the wrong path. Even in the rare instance where the main character makes the unexpected right decision, it's often because of some inner feeling of hopelessness (as in the story "Cherokee" where a gambler has to decide how far to ride his good fortune). Ultimately, this is a good read -- but one that is often frustrating.
Adrierdin
Ron Rash shows why he is truly a master of the short story in his most recent collection. This collection may not be quite so good as Chemistry and Other Stories, but it is consistently terrific and shows that, his recent successful novels notwithstanding, Rash hasn't forgotten his short story roots.

And roots are what Rash's writing is all about. As always, the stories take place in Western North Carolina but jump around within WNC and in time, from the Civil War to present day. What doesn't change is the ongoing exploration of the gestalt of the people of WNC.

The tensions created back home by war are a common theme (a theme Rash also explored in his most recent novel, The Cove). In Twenty-Six Days it is Afghanistan, or maybe Iraq. In The Magic Bus it is Vietnam. In The Dowry it is the Civil War. Where the Map Ends and A Servant of History demonstrate just how deep grudges can run in Appalachia (it is deep indeed). Rash's willingness to end on either a soft note or a hard note keeps the reader guessing, but the threat of violence always lurks beneath the surface.

Death, too, is ever present. One is always coming and the other come and gone. Small bodies of water play a prominent role in Something Rich and Strange, A Sort of Miracle, and The Woman at the Pond. Meth rears its ugly head in Those Who Are Dead Are Now Forgiven, and that old enemy Oxycontin ("hillbilly heroin") shows up in Nothing Gold Can Stay. Even one of the weaker stories, A Sort of Miracle, is worth the price of admission purely for an extended rant on Floridians.

Stories:
The Trusty
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Something Rich and Strange
Cherokee
Where the Map Ends
A Servant of History
Twenty-Six Days
A Sort of Miracle
Those Who Are Dead Are Only Now Forgiven
The Magic Bus
The Dowry
The Woman at the Pond
Night Hawks
Three A.M and the Stars Were Out

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