Burning Bright: Stories [Paperback]

“A gorgeous, brutal writer.”
—Richard Price,New York Timesbestselling author ofLush LifeandClockers

InBurning Bright,Pen/Faulkner finalist andNew York Timesbestselling author ofSerena,Ron Rash, captures the eerie beauty and stark violence of Appalachia through the lives of  unforgettable characters. With this masterful collection of stories that span the Civil War to the present day, Rash, a supremely talented writer who “recalls both John Steinbeck and Cormac McCarthy” (The New Yorker), solidifies his reputation as a major contemporary American literary artist.

Winner of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award,Burning Brightcaptures the complexities of Appalachia—a rugged, brutal landscape of exceptional beauty, promise, and suffering that serves asNew York Timesbestselling author Ron Rash's muse. Spanning from the Civil War to the present day, Rash's historical and modern settings are sewn together in a haunting patchwork of suspense and myth, populated by raw and unforgettable characters mined from the landscape.