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Can I read Burning Bright : Stories on EtoBox?
Burning Bright : Stories by Ron Rash is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Burning Bright : Stories about?
New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Ron Rash is "a storyteller of the highest rank" (Jeffrey Lent) and has won comparisons to John Steinbeck, Cormac McCarthy, and Gabriel Garca Mrquez. It is rare that an author can capture the complexities of a place as though it were a person, and rarer still that one can reveal a land as dichotomous and fractious as Appalachiaa muse; a siren; a rugged, brutal landscape of exceptional beauty, promise, and sufferingwith the honesty and precision of a photograph. "If you haven't heard of the Southern writer Ron Rash, it is time you should" ( The Plain Dealer ). In Burning Bright , the stories span the years from the Civil War to the present day, and Rash's historical and modern settings are sewn together in a hauntingly beautiful patchwork of suspense and myth, populated by raw and unforgettable characters mined from the landscape of Appalachia. In "Back of Beyond," a pawnshop owner who profits from the stolen goods of local meth addictsincluding his own nephewcomes to the aid of his brother and sister-in-law when they are threatened by their son. The pregnant wife of a Lincoln sympathizer alone in Confederate territory takes reven
Who reads Burning Bright : Stories?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Ron Rash
- Publisher
- Ecco Press
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780061804113
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.08 / 5 (2,013 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14