The Caretaker by Ron Rash Hardcover Book

Description: The Caretaker by Ron Rash 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 FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description One of the great American authors at work today - New York TimesIt is 1951. The close-knit community of Blowing Rock, North Carolina, does not welcome those who are different.Jacob Hamptons wealthy parents disinherited him when he married Naomi, an uneducated hotel maid from out of town. They had bigger plans for him.Now Jacob has been called up to fight in Korea, leaving a pregnant Naomi behind. The only person he can entrust to take care of her is his lifelong friend, Blackburn Gant. Blackburn, who tends the local cemetery alone, is an outsider too, his appearance irrevocably altered by childhood disease. Slowly the two outcasts grow closer, their friendship blooming under small acts of kindness. Then, as they await news of Jacobs 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. Author Biography Ron Rash is the author of the PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and New York Times-bestselling novel Serena, in addition to the critically acclaimed novels The Risen, Above the Waterfall, The Cove, One Foot in Eden, Saints at the River and The World Made Straight; five collections of poems; and seven collections of stories, among them Burning Bright, which won the 2010 Frank OConnor International Short Story Award, Nothing Gold Can Stay, a New York Times bestseller, and Chemistry and Other Stories, which was a finalist for the 2007 PEN/Faulkner Award. Three times the recipient of the O. Henry Prize and winner of the 2014 Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere, he teaches at Western Carolina University. Review With each Ron Rash story, you expect flawed people trying desperately to survive against the odds and a rich sense of place, and images that linger, and beautiful language that you catch yourself reading over and over. What you dont always expect is a wicked plot. The Caretaker delivers all of the above in a story that becomes a race to the finish - JOHN GRISHAMTheres a flint and an unflinching realism underneath . . . Rashs 20th book is among his best - Kirkus ReviewsPotent and rewarding . . . Rash expertly and seamlessly ratchets up the suspense and melodrama . . . The lyrically nuanced prose faithfully evokes the Appalachian landscape, and Rash again showcases an ability to dig beneath the surface of his characters to expose their base desires and intentions. This is exactly the kind of humanitarian storytelling that fans have come to expect and savour from him - Publishers WeeklyPraise for Nothing Gold Can Stay: These stories are wonderful. They give me an ache in the heart and I have to sit and look out of my window and think over and over again - ALICE MUNROPerfect! So many brilliant stories, brilliantly written . . . all moving, witty - CLAIRE FULLER - Details ISBN1805301659 Author Ron Rash Pages 272 Publisher Canongate Books Year 2023 ISBN-13 9781805301653 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2023-11-02 Imprint Canongate Books Place of Publication Edinburgh Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2023-11-02 UK Release Date 2023-11-02 ISBN-10 1805301659 Edition Description Main Audience General Alternative 9781805301677 DEWEY 813.6 NZ Release Date 2024-01-02 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:157805346;

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