Bücher von Ron Rash

'One of the great American authors at work today' New York TimesONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARIt is 1951. The close-knit community of Blowing Rock, North Carolina, does not welcome those who are different.Jacob Hampton's wealthy parents disinherited him when he married Naomi, an uneducated hotel maid. Now Jacob has been called up to fight in Korea, leaving a pregnant Naomi behind. The only person he can trust to take care of her is his lifelong friend, Blackburn Gant. Blackburn, who tends the local cemetery, is an outsider too, his appearance irrevocably altered by childhood disease.Slowly the two outcasts grow closer and as they await news of Jacob's return, a terrible, shattering act of deception derails all their lives. But no secret can stay hidden for ever.Tender and luminous with truth, The Caretaker is a riveting story about the bonds of friendship, the contradictions of family and what it really means to love.

Eine hochatmosphärische Geschichte über Freundschaft und Verrat von »einem der besten lebenden amerikanischen Autoren« (New York Times) Blowing Rock, North Carolina, zu Beginn der 1950er Jahre . Der junge Blackburn Gant, seit seiner Kindheit von einer Polioerkrankung gezeichnet, arbeitet als einziger Friedhofswärter der kleinen Stadt in den Appalachen . Sein Leben mit den Toten passt gut zu seiner zurückhaltenden Art, und die gelegentlichen Momente des Unbehagens bringen ihn längst nicht so aus dem Konzept wie die Gespräche mit den Bewohnern der Stadt. Doch als sein einziger Freund Jacob für den Koreakrieg eingezogen wird, bekommt Blackburn die Aufgabe, sich um dessen schwangere Frau Naomi zu kümmern. Die sechzehnjährige, mittellose Naomi und Jacob sind seit ihrer Hochzeit, die gegen den Willen von Jacobs wohlhabenden Eltern vollzogen wurde, Ausgestoßene in Blowing Rock. Naomi und Blackburn kommen sich näher, und als Jacob im Krieg schwer verwundet wird, entsteht ein Plan, der das Leben von vielen Menschen erschüttern wird ...

Set in a small Appalachian town, The Caretaker by award-winning author Ron Rash is a breathtaking love story and a searing examination of the acts we seek to justify in the name of duty, family, honour, and love

The year is 1929, and newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton arrive in North Carolina to create a timber empire. Although George has already lived in the camp long enough to father an illegitimate child, Serena is new to the mountains--but she soon shows herself to be the equal of any worker, overseeing crews, hunting rattlesnakes, even saving her husband's life in the wilderness.Together Serena and George ruthlessly kill or vanquish all who fall out of their favor. But when Serena learns that she will never bear a child, she sets out on her own to kill the son George had without her. Mother and child begin a struggle for their lives, and when Serena suspects George is protecting his illegitimate family, the Pembertons' intense, passionate marriage starts to unravel as the story moves toward its shocking finale.

Deep in the rugged Appalachians of North Carolina lies the cove, a dark, forbidding place where spirits and fetches wander, and even the light fears to travel. Or so the townsfolk of Mars Hill believe?just as they know that Laurel Shelton, the lonely young woman who lives within its shadows, is a witch.Then it happens?a stranger appears, carrying nothing but a silver flute and a note explaining that his name is Walter and he is mute?and Laurel experiences true companionship and happiness for the first time.But Walter harbors a secret that could destroy everything. In a time of uncertainty, when fear and danger reign, Laurel and Walter will discover that love alone may not be enough to protect them.

Winner of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, Burning Bright captures the complexities of Appalachia?a rugged, brutal landscape of exceptional beauty, promise, and suffering that serves as New York Times bestselling 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.

A New York Times bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist, Serena by award-winning author Ron Rash is "masterfully written...sprawling, engrossing and--from time to time--nightmarish," (San Francisco Chronicle); a remarkable novel that "recalls both John Steinbeck and Cormac McCarthy," (The New Yorker). Rash's chilling gothic tale of greed, corruption, and revenge set against the backdrop of the 1930s wilderness and America's burgeoning environmental movement was named a Best Book of the Year by more than a dozen national publications, including the New York Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, and Miami Herald. Serena is brilliant contemporary fiction that exquisitely balances beauty and violence, passion and rage, cruelty and love.

Travis Shelton wanders into the woods onto private property near his North Carolina home, and discovers a grove of marijuana large enough to make him some serious money, and steps into the jaws of a bear trap. After hours, he's released from the trap - but can no longer ignore the subtle evil that underlie the life of his Appalachian community.

A collection of stories in which the collision of the old and new south, of antique and modern, resonate with the depth and power of ancient myths.