Nothing Gold Can Stay, Ron Rash
Nothing Gold Can Stay, Ron Rash
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Nothing Gold Can Stay
Stories

Author: Ron Rash

Narrator: Alexander Cendese, Robert Petkoff, Prentice Onayemi, Christian Baskous, Phoebe Strole

Unabridged: 11 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 02/19/2013

Synopsis

From Ron Rash, PEN / Faulkner Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Serena, comes a new collection of unforgettable stories set in Appalachia that focuses on the lives of those haunted by violence and tenderness, hope and fear—spanning the Civil War to the present day. The darkness of Ron Rash’s work contrasts with its unexpected sensitivity and stark beauty in a manner that could only be accomplished by this master of the short story form.Nothing Gold Can Stay includes 14 stories, including Rash’s “The Trusty,” which first appeared in The New Yorker.

About Ron Rash

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Will on November 06, 2024

The title of Ron Rash’s fifth short story collection, Nothing Gold Can Stay, comes from the chestnut poem, with the same title, by Robert Frost. Nature’s first green is gold Her hardest hue to hold Her early leaf’s a flower But only so an hour Then leaf subsides to leaf So Eden sank to grief So dawn go......more

Goodreads review by karen on April 03, 2019

man, ron rash is good. of all the people who write that appalachia-desperation stuff i eat up with a spoon, his writing is just head and shoulders above his peers. he is both muscular and fragile, with a blink-and-you-miss-it quietude. for short stories to have this much depth and impact that they si......more

Goodreads review by s.penkevich on August 02, 2015

What is memory but near and far events spread and smoothed beneath the present's surface. There is darkness lurking in the mountains and hills of the human heart. Darkness that can bring a person to their knees, to commit unspeakable acts, darkness enough to drown a life in meaningless oblivion. What......more

Goodreads review by Brian on May 13, 2014

One of the reasons short fiction is my favorite genre is the requisite economy of words an author must employ. A virtuoso can make you feel all of the unsaid things; fleeting djinns seen with peripheral vision that may/not be there. My solid measuring stick of fantastic writing is reaching the end o......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on May 05, 2021

I’ve been meaning to catch up with Appalachian writer Ron Rash for some time and I finally settled on this collection of fourteen short stories, all set in the part of the world he knows best. There’s quite a range of tales here but many are melancholy in nature and happy endings are pretty hard to......more

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