Something Rich and Strange: Selected Stories, (Paperback)

from froxgirl

Ron Rash is my favorite author. Most of these 34 heartbreaking stories come from his prior collections. They are all very fine - Rash tells each tale in a few riveting pages, and all the endings work well. Most are melancholy tales set in North Carolina, in the present working class misery or in ...

from Hagelstein

When you come across a Ron Rash story it's usually the best short story you've read in a while, and it often lingers. But his true mastery of the form comes into clear view in a collection, especially this collection. Read one after the other, Rash's stories are rich, evocative, carefully constru...

from bookfest

Rash is remarkable! He can create a character you care for, deeply, in just a few pages. His stories are southern, ranging in time from the Civil War to contemporary events. There are soldiers and meth addicts. Slaves of then and now. His endings are almost always harsh twists; you cry, no!

from froxgirl

Ron Rash is my favorite author. Most of these 34 heartbreaking stories come from his prior collections. They are all very fine - Rash tells each tale in a few riveting pages, and all the endings work well. Most are melancholy tales set in North Carolina, in the present working class misery or in ...

from Hagelstein

When you come across a Ron Rash story it's usually the best short story you've read in a while, and it often lingers. But his true mastery of the form comes into clear view in a collection, especially this collection. Read one after the other, Rash's stories are rich, evocative, carefully constru...