Chemistry and Other Stories

Chemistry and Other Stories, A Picador Paperback Original

From the pre-eminent chronicler of this forgotten territory, stories that range over one hundred years in the troubled, violent emergence of the New South.

In Ron Rash's stories, spanning the entire twentieth century in Appalachia, rural communities struggle with the arrival of a new era.

Three old men stalk the shadow of a giant fish no one else believes is there. A man takes up scuba diving in the town reservoir to fight off a killing depression. A grieving mother leads a surveyor into the woods to name once and for all the county where her son was murdered by thieves.

In the Appalachia of Ron Rash's stories, the collision of the old and new south, of antique and modern, resonate with the depth and power of ancient myths.

Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 04/17/2007
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780312425081


Award: PEN/Faulkner Award - Finalist


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/22/2007 pg. 155
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2007 pg. 147
Library Journal 04/01/2007 pg. 85
Booklist 03/01/2007 pg. 64
Men's Journal 06/01/2007 pg. 34

About the Author
Ron Rash is the author of the prize-winning novels "One Foot in Eden, Saints" "at the River "and "The World Made Straight," as well as several collections of poetry and short stories. He is the recipient of an O. Henry Prize and the James Still Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. For "Saints at the River" he received the 2004 Weatherford Award for Best Novel and the 2005 SEBA Best Book Award for Fiction. Rash holds the John Parris Chair in Appalachian Studies at Western Carolina University and lives in Clemson, South Carolina.