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Something Rich and Strange: Selected Stories de Ron Rash

Something Rich and Strange: Selected Stories

Autor Ron Rash
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 aug 2015

Proza lui Ron Rash posedă o textură rară, în care precizia tăioasă a observației se împletește cu o cadență lirică ce trădează sensibilitatea sa de poet. Observăm în această colecție, Something Rich and Strange, o capacitate remarcabilă de a distila esența unui loc — regiunea munților Appalachia — în imagini care rămân întipărite în memorie mult timp după închiderea cărții. Nu suntem în fața unor simple schițe regionale, ci a unei cartografieri emoționale a supraviețuirii, unde violența și tandrețea coexistă în mod firesc.

Cele treizeci de povestiri selectate din volume precum Nothing Gold Can Stay sau Burning Bright funcționează ca o poartă de intrare în universul unui autor care stăpânește arta tăcerilor și a nuanțelor. Cititorul care a apreciat realismul visceral și peisajele aspre din Burning Bright va găsi aici aceeași forță narativă, dar într-un context mai larg, ce acoperă întreg parcursul creativ al lui Rash. Dacă în romane precum The Cove sau The Caretaker autorul dezvoltă tensiuni pe spații extinse, în proza scurtă el demonstrează o economie de mijloace fascinantă; fiecare cuvânt pare cioplit direct în piatra munților despre care scrie.

Subliniem faptul că, deși ancorate într-un sud american marcat de contrastul dintre vechi și nou, temele sunt universale: legătura omului cu pământul, greutatea moștenirii familiale și fragilitatea speranței. Ritmul lecturii este unul deliberat, impus de o scriitură care cere atenție la detalii, transformând experiența cititului într-o formă de contemplare a condiției umane în fața unei naturi adesea indiferente.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780062349354
ISBN-10: 006234935X
Pagini: 448
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția Ecco

De ce să citești această carte

Această antologie este esențială pentru cei care doresc să descopere vocea unuia dintre cei mai importanți scriitori americani contemporani. Cititorul câștigă acces la o selecție riguroasă a celor mai bune texte ale lui Ron Rash, oferind o perspectivă completă asupra măiestriei sale. Este o recomandare certă pentru iubitorii de proză scurtă densă, atmosferică, unde stilul poetic se întâlnește cu realismul dur.

Despre autor

Ron Rash (născut la 25 septembrie 1953) este un reputat poet, nuvelist și romancier american, deținător al catedrei Parris Distinguished Professor în studii culturale apalașe la Western Carolina University. Recunoscut ca un maestru al literaturii sudiste contemporane, Rash a primit numeroase distincții, inclusiv premiul Frank O'Connor și două premii O. Henry. Opera sa, care include volume celebre precum Serena și The World Made Straight, este profund marcată de peisajul și istoria regiunii Appalachia, fiind comparată adesea cu lucrările lui Cormac McCarthy pentru intensitatea și rigoarea stilistică.

Descriere scurtă

From the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling award-winning author of Serena and The Cove, thirty of his finest short stories, collected in one volume.
No one captures the complexities of Appalachia—a rugged, brutal landscape of exquisite beauty—as evocatively and indelibly as author and poet Ron Rash. Winner of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, two O Henry prizes, and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, Rash brilliantly illuminates the tensions between the traditional and the modern, the old and new south, tenderness and violence, man and nature. Though the focus is regional, the themes of Rash’s work are universal, striking an emotional chord that resonates deep within each of our lives.
Something Rich and Strange showcases this revered master’s artistry and craftsmanship in thirty stories culled from his previously published collections Nothing Gold Can Stay, Burning Bright, Chemistry, and The Night New Jesus Fell to Earth. Each work of short fiction demonstrates Rash’s dazzling ability to evoke the heart and soul of this land and its people—men and women inexorably tethered to the geography that defines and shapes them. Filled with suspense and myth, hope and heartbreak, told in language that flows like “shimmering, liquid poetry” (Atlanta Journal Constitution), Something Rich and Strange is an iconic work from an American literary virtuoso. 

Recenzii

Rash is the master of his craft…The poet in Rash comes out in every story, in language so choice that even his shortest stories pack a serious wallop… Readers will want to read slowly, dipping into the contents judiciously to extend the pleasures of this stunning collection. — Booklist (starred review)
“This selection of 34 stories from four collections signals the growing prominence of a fine author… These superbly suspenseful stories evoke a world of hurt, but what makes them so deeply satisfying is that they enlarge our capacity for empathy.” — Kirkus Reviews
“No one writes better about the misunderstood, bedeviled, mule-stubborn inhabitants of Southern Appalachia than Rash... Something Rich and Strange is a bonanza for short-story fans, and another great introduction to Rash for those who haven’t read the originals yet.” — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“For those unfamiliar with the beautiful and searing short stories of Ron Rash, Something Rich and Strange is a generous, well-timed introduction…. Rash’s stories tell in crisp, gripping prose the emotional travails of life on the Appalachian outback… Powerful and beautifully told.” — Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers
“Rash’s stories show the highs of lows of life in the Appalachians through the decades, from the hardscrabble years of the Great Depression through the current challenges of meth addiction… Something Rich and Strange showcase[s] Rash’s narrative powers and convey why his work has won so many accolades.” — Asheville Mountain Express
“[Rash] brings his poet’s eyes to the images of his people and place and his native ears to the language of that locale… Rash’s writing resonates with our lives.” — New York Journal of Books
“Ron Rash’s stories portray the Appalachian landscape in all its brutal, exquisite complexity… It is not an easy feat for a writer to portray a region so fully that enduring truths are found in local circumstance… [Rash] beautifully illustrates the appeal and vexation of the South.” — New York Times Book Review
“Ron Rash occupies an odd place in the pantheon of great American writers, and you’d better believe he belongs there…Something Rich and Strange is a major short-story anthology that can introduce new readers to this author’s haunting talents and reaffirm what his established following already knows.” — New York Times, Janet Maslin
“Expect to be good for nothing for a long time after you read Ron Rash. His writing is powerful, stripped down and very still... Rash’s spectacular stories may originate in the peculiar soil of Appalachia, but their reach and their rewards are vast.” — NPR's Fresh Air
“[R]ich and strange are two words that aptly apply to this book. I have two other words to continue with: Simply beautiful... some of the stories are so searing, it’s as if someone has taken a stick from a blazing fire and pressed it into your hand.” — NPR's All Things Considered
“These are among the ‘rich’ and ‘strange’ tales Ron Rash shares from his Appalachian region, stories of country life so true, they are sure to strike deep chords among rural readers across the country…” — Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS)
“Ron Rash merges sound and sense in [this] new collection… Rash’s themes are universal: man’s struggle with nature, with others, with himself. ” — Charlotte Observer
“Ron Rash knows that shadows are waiting to eclipse our lives, knows that no matter how desperately we search for places of respite, there are likely to be none…[This book] remind[s] us of that truth and of the unforgiving, barren landscape in which that truth resides.” — Anniston Star
“…beautiful new collection…. The prose in every story is sensual and expressive. [Rash] swings easily between humor and pathos, the mundane and the momentous. ” — Chicago Tribune
“This anthology of Rash’s earthy, often eerie short stories is like a forest you can get lost in for hours, small but affecting tales of poverty, addiction, pride, love, and despair threaded with life-altering acts of violence and a firm sense of humanity... Grade: A-” — Entertainment Weekly
“Mr. Rash is one of the great American authors at work today, and this short-story anthology confirms that stature. His prose rings clear and true… his awe-inspiring stories are startlingly attuned to nature, human and otherwise, in all its power both to create and destroy.” — New York Times, Janet Maslin's 10 Favorite Books of 2014
“Short story lovers would be hard-pressed to find a better release this year than Ron Rash’s Something Rich and Strange. Throughout this masterful collection… Rash brings authority and compassion to a broad range of mountain folk…Rash’s stories may have heart, but they also flash some formidable teeth.” — Nashville Scene, Reviewers Favorite Books of 2014
“Rash will scare you, enlighten you, dazzle and surprise you. But he’ll never bore you. These 34 muscular stories brim with Appalachian characters who live (and sometimes die) by their wits and by their pride.” — Raleigh News & Observer
“Most of the 34 stories are from the author’s previously published collections. Two stories are published in book form for the first time. All contain language and characters as rich and strange as the southern Appalachian landscape that they have come from.” — Anniston Star
“These stories are so visual as to be palpable to the senses… Ron Rash is known to be conscious of every word he writes and each syllable stressed in each sentence illuminates the cadence of his prose.” — Authorlink
“Mr. Rash is one of the great American authors at work today, and this short-story anthology confirms that stature. His prose rings clear and true. — Janet Maslin, NYT, Top Ten Books of 2014