by Ron Rash
“Something Rich and Strange”—first published in Shade 2004, reprinted in Nothing Gold Can Stay
“The Dowry”—first published in The Southern Review, reprinted in Nothing Gold Can Stay
“A Sort of Miracle”—first published in Nothing Gold Can Stay
“The Corpse Bird”—first published in The South Carolina Review, reprinted in Burning Bright
“Dead Confederates”—first published in Shenandoah, reprinted in Burning Bright
“The Woman at the Pond”—first published in The Southern Review, reprinted in Nothing Gold Can Stay
“A Servant of History”—first published in Nothing Gold Can Stay
“Twenty-Six Days”—first published in The Washington Post, reprinted in Nothing Gold Can Stay
“Last Rite”—first published in the Greensboro Review, reprinted in This Is Where We Live: New North Carolina Short Stories, Casualties, and Chemistry and Other Stories
“Blackberries in June”—first published in Chemistry and Other Stories
“Chemistry”—first published in Casualties, reprinted in Chemistry and Other Stories
“The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth”—first published in A Carolina Literary Companion, reprinted in The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth and Other Stories from Cliffside, North Carolina
“The Harvest”—first published in The Book of Men Anthology, edited by Colum McCann
“Badeye”—first published in The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth and Other Stories from Cliffside, North Carolina
“Love and Pain in the New South”—first published in Charleston Magazine, reprinted in The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth and Other Stories from Cliffside, North Carolina
“Shiloh,” previously entitled “The Return”—first published in TriQuarterly
“Outlaws”—first published in Oxford American
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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RON RASH is the author of the 2009 PEN/Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestselling novel Serena, in addition to four other prizewinning novels, including The Cove, One Foot in Eden, Saints at the River, and The World Made Straight; four collections of poems; and five 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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FICTION
Nothing Gold Can Stay
The Cove
Burning Bright
Serena
The World Made Straight
Saints at the River
One Foot in Eden
Chemistry and Other Stories
Casualties
The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth
POETRY
Waking
Raising the Dead
Among the Believers
Eureka Mill
CREDITS
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COVER ARTWORK © BY JAMIE HEIDEN
COPYRIGHT
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