Serena: A Novel

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Harper Collins, Oct 7, 2008 - Fiction - 371 pages

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.

 

Contents

Section 1
3
Section 2
21
Section 3
39
Section 4
53
Section 5
61
Section 6
67
Section 7
77
Section 8
85
Section 20
191
Section 21
199
Section 22
213
Section 23
221
Section 24
231
Section 25
245
Section 26
253
Section 27
263

Section 9
91
Section 10
101
Section 11
109
Section 12
115
Section 13
127
Section 14
133
Section 15
143
Section 16
155
Section 17
163
Section 18
173
Section 19
183
Section 28
277
Section 29
293
Section 30
299
Section 31
305
Section 32
315
Section 33
321
Section 34
329
Section 35
333
Section 36
337
Section 37
349
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About the author (2008)

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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