Nothing Gold Can Stay: Stories Audiobook

Quotes

• “Ron Rash’s fifth story collection, Nothing Gold Can Stay, set in hardscrabble Appalachia, has a tone and temperament like that of his compatriot Eudora Welty, with a twist of Barry Hannah.”

  — Elle

• “Crime, with its violence, threads through the butcher’s dozen of stories in the author’s masterly fourteenth book, Nothing Gold Can Stay, as inexorably as it winds through the problematic lives of his Appalachian-dwelling characters.”

  — Wall Street Journal

• “With Nothing Gold Can Stay, Ron Rash cements his reputation as one of the foremost chroniclers of that mythic uber-America known as the South…At his best, Rash evokes an understated poignancy that is genuinely affecting.”

  — Washington Post

• “A collection of short stories about Appalachia that are actually more like diamonds: cold, glittering, valuable.”

  — New York magazine

• “A lovely, essential new collection of stories…lyrical and honest, grounded in place yet sweeping in scope…[Rash’s] prose is elegant, suggestive, and Hardyesque.”

  — Boston Globe

• “Striking…engaging…mesmerizing…After finishing this collection, one simply just wants to read more of Ron Rash.

  — Minneapolis Star Tribune

• “Masterfully crafted. The best of Rash’s stories, written in a spare prose style, have an aching lyricism as they chronicle the hard times and hard fall of his characters. The best of the best will haunt the reader long after they’re done.”

  — Washington Independent Review of Books

• “Violence-streaked stories that comprise another fine collection from [Ron] Rash…his oneness with the region and its people makes an indelible impression.”

  — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

• “Rash impresses with clear-eyed, sympathetic writing about flawed and troubled characters.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “Rash’s short stories thematically paint Appalachia not as a definitive place but as a series of many interconnected ways of relating to human and environmental frailty. Another fine addition to the Rash bibliography, and a great entry point for the uninitiated reader.”

  — Library Journal