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Loading... Above the Waterfall: A Novel (edition 2016)by Ron Rash (Author)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. [[Ron Rash]] flickered onto my radar with several stories in literary journals. His simple, straightforward style brings something to the typical Appalachian Gothic that is often missing, a keen eye for the people, place, and sensibility. This one, a longer form than I've read from him before, elongates the story without complicating it - Rash doesn't need complex plots to tell a good story. In this story, a near-retired Sheriff is pitted against a destination-hotel developer, with a crotchety local and a park ranger in the middle. The mystery isn't terribly difficult to figure out, but Rash doesn't intend it to be. What he spends his time on is the character's lives and back-stories, fleshing out their choices and motivations. If you are about to read about where crawdads sing, read this instead - read it twice instead. 5 bones!!!!! Highly recommended no reviews | add a review
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HTML: In this poetic and haunting tale set in contemporary Appalachia, New York Times bestselling author Ron Rash illuminates lives shaped by violence and a powerful connection to the land. Les, a long-time sheriff just three-weeks from retirement, contends with the ravages of crystal meth and his own duplicity in his small Appalachian town. Becky, a park ranger with a harrowing past, finds solace amid the lyrical beauty of this patch of North Carolina. Enduring the mistakes and tragedies that have indelibly marked them, they are drawn together by a reverence for the natural world. When an irascible elderly local is accused of poisoning a trout stream, Les and Becky are plunged into deep and dangerous waters, forced to navigate currents of disillusionment and betrayal that will force them to question themselves and test their tentative bondâ??and threaten to carry them over the edge. Echoing the heartbreaking beauty of William Faulkner and the spiritual isolation of Carson McCullers, Above the Waterfall demonstrates once again the prodigious talent of "a gorgeous, brutal writer" (Richard Price) hailed as "one of the great American authors at work today" (Janet Maslin, New York Times). No library descriptions found. |
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Audiobook, borrowed from my public library. The performances by Richard Ferrone and Tavia Gilbert were fine. DNF at 45%. ( )