Awards

• Commended for PEN/Faulkner Award 2009
• Winner of Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize (Fiction) 2009

Overview

"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."

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9780061470851

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Beautifully written, utterly unforgettable. To my mind, this novel, as powerful and inexorable as a thunderstorm, is as good a piece of fiction as was published last year and a new classic in the category of love gone terribly wrong. -- Anna Quindlen, The Daily Beast

Author Information

Ron Rash is the author of the 2009 PEN/Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestseller Serena and Above the Waterfall, in addition to four prizewinning novels, including The Cove, One Foot in Eden, Saints at the River, and The World Made Straight; four collections of poems; and six collections of stories, among them Burning Bright, which won the 2010 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, and Chemistry and Other Stories, which was a finalist for the 2007 PEN/Faulkner Award. Twice the recipient of the O. Henry Prize, he teaches at Western Carolina University.

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