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Nothing Gold Can Stay

Written by: Ron Rash
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese, Robert Petkoff, Prentice Onayemi, Christian Baskous, Phoebe Strole
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Publisher's Summary

Audie Award Finalist, Short Stories/Collections, 2014

PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and New York Times best-selling author Ron Rash turns again to Appalachia to capture lives haunted by violence and tenderness, hope and fear, in unforgettable stories that span from the Civil War to the present day.

In the title story, two drug-addicted friends return to the farm where they worked as boys to steal their former boss' gruesomely unusual war trophies. In "The Trusty", which first appeared in The New Yorker, a prisoner sent to fetch water for his chain gang tries to sweet-talk a farmer's young wife into helping him escape, only to find that she is as trapped as he is. In "Something Rich and Strange", a diver is called upon to pull a drowned girl's body free from under a falls, but he finds her eerily at peace below the surface.

The violence of Rash's characters and their raw settings are matched only by their resonance and stark beauty, a masterful combination that has earned Rash an avalanche of praise.

©2013 Ron Rash (P)2013 HarperCollins Publishers

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